# seller
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsɛlə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈsɛlɚ/ enPR: sĕl-ər
* Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
* Homophone: cellar

### Etymology 1

From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell +‎ -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell +‎ -er (patient) (sense 2). Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).

#### Noun

seller (plural sellers)
* Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
    Alisha was a seller of fine books.
* Something which sells.
    Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.
** 1980, Marianne Wiggins, Went South, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 87:Still, she sat in her chair and read it and reread it, six, seven times. She was pleased with it, she was pleased with herself. This time for sure, she said to herself. This one’s a seller. Really big.

##### Derived terms

* bookseller
* dramseller
* fishseller
* printseller
* pyramid seller
* rumseller
* seller's market
* seller's remorse
* slopseller
* superseller
* toyseller
* bestseller
* megaseller
* panic seller
* short seller
* system seller

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

#### Noun

seller (plural sellers)
* Obsolete spelling of cellar.

### Anagrams

* Ellers, ellers, resell

## Estonian
### Etymology

From German Sellerie.

### Noun

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)
* celery

#### Declension
### References

* seller in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## French
### Etymology

From selle +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛ.le/ ~ /se.le/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: sceller

### Verb

seller
* to saddle
** 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLVII, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C$^{ie}$, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:Appelant à part l’hôtelier, ils lui ordonnèrent de seller Rossinante et de bâter le grison, ce qu’il fit avec diligence.Calling aside the innkeeper, they ordered him to saddle Rossinante and to put a packsaddle on the donkey, which he did with diligence.

#### Related terms

* selle
* desseller

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Noun

seller
* Alternative form of sellere

## Norman
### Etymology

selle (“saddle”) +‎ -er

### Verb

seller
* (Jersey) to saddle

#### Related terms

* sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
* sellyi m (“saddler”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

seller
* indefinite plural of selle m or f
* indefinite plural of selle m

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

seller m
* form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

#### Verb

seller
* present tense of selle (non-standard since 1981)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

seller f
* indefinite plural of selle

## Pennsylvania German
### Etymology

Cognate to German selbig (“the same (one)”).

### Pronoun

seller
* that, that one

#### Declension
### Determiner

seller
* that
** 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:
    sell Haus datt driwwe
       that house over there
    In sellem alde Glaawe maag en bissel Waahret schtecke.
       In that old belief there may be a bit of truth.

#### Declension
### Determiner

seller
* dative feminine of seller: that, to that

### References

* Earl C Haag, Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar (2010), page 204