seel

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Good fortune; happiness; bliss. UK,dialectal
  2. The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. obsolete
    — The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.
  3. Opportunity; time; season. UK,dialectal
    — the seel of the day
动词 v.
  1. To sew together the eyelids of a young hawk.
    — Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind[…] Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher[…]
  2. To roll on the waves in a storm. intransitive,obsolete
    — when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather
  3. To blind. broadly
形容词 adj.
  1. Good; fortunate; opportune; happy. obsolete

词形变化

more seel comparative most seel superlative seels plural seal alternative seels present,singular,third-person seeling participle,present seeled participle,past seeled past seels present,singular,third-person seeling participle,present seeled participle,past seeled past seels plural

词汇关系

衍生词
barley-seel hay-seel unseel

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sel, sele, from Old English *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in Old English 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”).
词源 2
From Middle English sele, sel, from Old English 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.
词源 3
From Middle English silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).
词源 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).
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