seelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 sel, sele, from 古期英語 *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in 古期英語 unsǣle (“evil, wicked”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“good, happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Danish sæl (“blissful”), Dutch zalig (“blissful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 (sēls, “good, kind, useful”), Icelandic sæll (“blissful”), Latin sōlor (“to comfort, console”), Swedish säll (“blissful”).

形容詞

seel (comparative more seel, superlative most seel)

1. (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

語源 2

From 中期英語 sele, sel, from 古期英語 sǣl (“time, occasion, a fit time, season, opportunity, the definite time at which an event should take place, time as in bad or good times, circumstances, condition, position, happiness, joy, good fortune, good time, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“luck, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Icelandic sæla (“bliss”), Dutch zalig (“blissful, blessed”). More at silly.

別の表記

• seal

名詞

seel (plural seels)

1. (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
2. (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.

   the seel of the day

派生語

• barley-seel
• hay-seel

語源 3

From 中期英語 silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).

動詞

seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)

1. (falconry) To sew together the eyelids of a young hawk.
   • 1651, William Davenant, Gondibert:

     Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind […]
     Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher […]

2. (by extension) To blind.

語源 4

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīgan (“to drop”). Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (transitive verb).

動詞

seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
   • c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:

     when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather

名詞

seel (plural seels)

1. (obsolete) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
   • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:

     The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.

参照

• “seel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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