# selle
## English
### Noun

selle (plural selles)
* Obsolete spelling of sell.
** 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Night 20)
    When he ended his verse he bade one of his pages saddle him his Nubian mare-mule with her padded selle.

## Asturian
### Verb

selle
* first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sellar

## Estonian
### Pronoun

selle
* genitive singular of see

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French selle, from Old French sele, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛl/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: celle, celles, scelle, scelles, scellent, sel, sellent, selles, sels

### Noun

selle f (plural selles)
* saddle (for riding)
    Synonym: (Louisiana) soutadaire
* commode (chair containing a chamber pot)
    Synonym: chaise percée
* (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) excrement (human or animal)

#### Derived terms

* sellerie
* sellier
* seller

### Further reading

* “selle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* elles

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛl.le/
* Rhymes: -ɛlle
* Hyphenation: sèl‧le

### Noun

selle f
* plural of sella

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

selle
* Alternative form of selly

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

selle
* Alternative form of sellen

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

### Noun

selle f (plural selles)
* saddle

#### Descendants

* French: selle

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

### Noun

selle f (plural selles)
* (Jersey, cycling, horse tack) saddle

#### Derived terms

* selle à beurre f (“butter churn”)
* selle à tuthet f (“rammer churn”)
* selle bâtchiéthe f (“packsaddle”)
* seller (“to saddle”, verb)
* sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
* sellot m (“saddle”)
* sellyi m (“saddler”)
* tigue dé selle f (“seat post, saddle stem”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Latin cella.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

#### Noun

selle f or m (definite singular sella or sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
* alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

### Etymology 2

From Low German selle.

#### Noun

selle m (definite singular sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
* (historical) a miner
* (dialectal, colloquial) dude, guy

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse selja.

#### Verb

selle (present tense seller)
* form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selge

### References

* “selle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin cella.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

### Noun

selle f (definite singular sella, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
* alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

### References

* “selle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsel.le/, [ˈseɫ.ɫe]

### Verb

selle
* inflection of sellan:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

## Pennsylvania German
### Determiner

selle
* feminine nominative/accusative singular of seller: that
* nominative/accusative/dative plural of seller: that, to that

## Spanish
### Verb

selle
* inflection of sellar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## West Frisian
### Etymology

Shortening of sellemoanne.

### Noun

selle c (plural [please provide])
* (rare) February
    Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne

#### Further reading

* “selle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011