# dell
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: dĕl, IPA: /dɛl/
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* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Etymology 1

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.

#### Noun

dell (plural dells)
* A valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
** 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50
    To this day they dwell
    In a lonely dell.
** 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.

##### Synonyms

* dale
* dingle
* vale
* valley
* See also Thesaurus:valley

##### Derived terms

* farmer in the dell
* Hazel Dell
* up hill and down dell

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

#### Noun

dell (plural dells)
* (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
** 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:Sweet doxies and dells

##### Derived terms

* arch dell
* wapping dell

### References

* ↑ Brown, Lesley (1993) The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon, →ISBN

## Albanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).

### Noun

dell m (plural dej, definite delli, definite plural dejtë)
* (anatomy) tendon
* sinew

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 87

### Further reading

* “dell”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “dell”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic ظِلّ (ẓill).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛll/

### Noun

dell m (plural dellijiet or dliel)
* shade, shadow

## Manx
### Verb

dell (verbal noun dellal)
* to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Middle English
### Noun

dell
* Alternative form of delle

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dell/, [deɫ]

### Noun

dell n
* dell, vale

#### Descendants

* English: dell

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dell”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From the company name Dell, which has the similar pronunciation.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔɗɛw˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔɗɛw˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔɗɛw˦˥]
* Phonetic spelling: đéo

### Adverb

dell
* (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of đéo.

## Yola
### Preposition

dell
* Alternative form of del
** 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 17:dell, for till;(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 17