seel

Meanings

1. Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

1. Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
2. Opportunity; time; season.

1. To sew together the eyelids of a young hawk.
2. To blind.

1. To roll on the waves in a storm.

1. The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.

Etymology

From Middle English sel, sele, from Old English *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in Old English unsǣle (“evil, wicked”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“good, happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Danish sæl (“blissful”), Dutch zalig (“blissful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 (sēls, “good, kind, useful”), Icelandic sæll (“blissful”), Latin sōlor (“to comfort, console”), Swedish säll (“blissful”).