sele

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 4
Words With Friends: 5
Letters: 4

Pronunciation

/siːl/

Definition of sele

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)Happiness, fortune.

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noun

(countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)Happiness, fortune.
(British, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
(countable, uncountable)Greeting, salutation.

“I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]”
“When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]”

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Etymology

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Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *sēliz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *sālī Old English sǣl Middle English sel English sele Inherited from Middle English sel (“fortune, bliss; a unit of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.

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