# sellen
## Asturian
### Verb

sellen
* third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of sellar

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* cellyn, sel, selle, sellyn, sillen, sille, sulle, sullen, syllen
* sellenn, seollen, sullan (Early Middle English)
* zelle (Kent)
* sulle, sullen, suylle (Southwest Midlands)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English sellan, from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną (“to give”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛlən/, /ˈsilən/
* (Southern, Southwest Midlands) IPA: /ˈzylən/, /ˈsylən/

### Verb

sellen (third-person singular simple present selleth, present participle sellynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative solde, past participle sold)
* To grant; to confer or bestow:
** To gift; to give or confer a present.
** To serve or administer; to give comestibles.
** To sacrifice or hand over (one's life)
* To sell; to make a sale or transaction:
** c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 29-30; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:Wou ſitte ye poſtles. a[n]t wi nule ye ete. / ic am ibouſt a[n]t iſold. to day foꝛ oure mete."How are you, apostles? Why won't you eat? / I was bought and sold today for our food."
** c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 13:17, page 122v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:þat no man mai bie eiþ[ir] ſille .· but þei han þe caracter eiþ[ir] þe name of þe beeſte · eiþ[ir] þe nou[m]bꝛe of his name […] so nobody could buy or sell [anything] unless they had the mark, the name of the Beast, or the number denoting his name.
** To market; to put up for sale.
** To sell into slavery; to enslave for money.
* (usually negative) To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).
** (religion) To sell one's soul; to consign one's soul to Hell.
** (figuratively) To weaken, adulterate or lose (in exchange)
* To betray; to give up or hand over (usually a person)
** c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 22-23; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:I nul ſulle my louerd foꝛ noneſ cunneſ eiſte. / bote hit be foꝛ þe þritti platen. þat he me bitaiſte."I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me."
* To get revenge (for a transgression or wrong).

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Derived terms

* sellere

#### Descendants

* English: sell
** → Dutch: sellen
* Scots: sell

#### References

* “sellen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old High German
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną. Compare Old Saxon sellian, Old Dutch sellen, Old English sellan, Old Norse selja, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (saljan).

### Verb

sellen
* to give, to hand over
* to betray

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: sellen
** German: sellen (obsolete)

## Spanish
### Verb

sellen
* inflection of sellar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative