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Adjective [English]

Forms: more seld [comparative], most seld [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English selde (adjective) and selde (adverb), a back-formation from Old English seldor (“more seldom”), seldost (“most seldom”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|selde|pos=a}} Middle English selde (adjective), {{der|en|ang|seldor|t=more seldom}} Old English seldor (“more seldom”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} seld (comparative more seld, superlative most seld)
  1. Rare; uncommon. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-seld-en-adj-OJp3yjfe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 31 28 0 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 18 20 0 8 20 15 1 2 Synonyms: infrequent, scarce, uncommon, dearthy, few and far between [idiomatic], geason [dialectal, rare], infrequent, in short supply, non-common, rare, raresome, scant, scantling, scarce, selcouth, seld [archaic], seldom [archaic], selly [UK, dialectal], superrare, uncommon, unfrequent
  2. Unusual; unwonted. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-seld-en-adj-dj3xFmov Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 31 28 0 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 18 20 0 8 20 15 1 2 Synonyms: bizarre, odd, weird, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband [dated], bizarre, booky [Multicultural-London-English], curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby [UK, dialectal], freak, freakish, freaky, fremd [dialectal, rare], funny, heteroclite, hinky [informal], incongruous, incongruitous, irregular, kooky [informal], monstrous [obsolete], nonstandard, odd, outlandish, out of the ordinary, outré, peculiar, quaint [dialectal], queer, queer as a clockwork orange [UK], queer as a nine bob note [UK], queer as a three dollar bill [US], queer as a coot, queer as Dick's hatband [dated], rare, rum [UK, dated], rummy [UK, dated], selcouth, seld, singular, strange, trippy [informal], uncanny, uncommon, uncouth [archaic], unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy [UK, dialectal]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Adverb [English]

Forms: more seld [comparative], most seld [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English selde (adjective) and selde (adverb), a back-formation from Old English seldor (“more seldom”), seldost (“most seldom”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|selde|pos=a}} Middle English selde (adjective), {{der|en|ang|seldor|t=more seldom}} Old English seldor (“more seldom”) Head templates: {{en-adv}} seld (comparative more seld, superlative most seld)
  1. (obsolete or Scotland dialectal) Seldom. Tags: Scotland, dialectal, obsolete Related terms: selcouth, selly
    Sense id: en-seld-en-adv-CDOWDZhl Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 31 28 0 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 18 20 0 8 20 15 1 2 Synonyms: infrequently, scarcely, uncommonly, at times [idiomatic], ever and anon [literary], every once in a while [idiomatic], every now and then [idiomatic], every so often [idiomatic], from time to time [idiomatic], intermittently, irregularly, now and again [idiomatic], now and then [idiomatic], occasionally, on occasion, once in a while [idiomatic], sometimes, sporadically, uncommonly, while [obsolete], whilom [obsolete]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [English]

Forms: selds [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English selde (“seat, store”), from Old English seld (noun), neuter, metathetic form of setl (noun) (English settle). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|selde|id=store|t=seat, store}} Middle English selde (“seat, store”), {{inh|en|ang|seld|pos=n}} Old English seld (noun), {{cog|en|settle}} English settle Head templates: {{en-noun}} seld (plural selds)
  1. (obsolete) A seat, throne. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-seld-en-noun-mU~-dZwC
  2. (obsolete) A shop (in Medieval Latin records selda or silda (cf. Latin sella (“seat, chair”)); also in Anglo-Norman form seude). Also, a stand for spectators. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-seld-en-noun-ov1HJanK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 31 28 0 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Norwegian Nynorsk]

Forms: selt [neuter, singular], selde [definite, plural, singular]
Head templates: {{head|nn|participle|neuter singular|selt|definite singular and plural|selde|cat2=past participles}} seld (neuter singular selt, definite singular and plural selde), {{nn-part-d|selt}} seld (neuter singular selt, definite singular and plural selde)
  1. sold; past participle of selja Tags: participle
    Sense id: en-seld-nn-verb-W6DEphbs Categories (other): Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 15 15 16 0 11 23 17 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 18 20 0 8 20 15 1 2

Noun [Old English]

Head templates: {{ang-noun|n}} seld n
  1. alternative form of setl (“seat, throne”) Tags: alt-of, alternative, neuter Alternative form of: setl (extra: seat, throne)
    Sense id: en-seld-ang-noun-miCsV57V Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 18 20 0 8 20 15 1 2

Adjective [Proto-West Germanic]

Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *seldaz. Etymology templates: {{inh|gmw-pro|gem-pro|*seldaz}} Proto-Germanic *seldaz Head templates: {{head|gmw-pro|adjective}} *seld Inflection templates: {{gmw-infl-adj}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], seld [masculine, nominative, singular], seldu [feminine, nominative, singular], seld [neuter, nominative, singular], seldanā [accusative, masculine, singular], seldā [accusative, feminine, singular], seld [accusative, neuter, singular], seldas [genitive, masculine, singular], seldeʀā [feminine, genitive, singular], seldas [genitive, neuter, singular], seldumē [dative, masculine, singular], seldeʀē [dative, feminine, singular], seldumē [dative, neuter, singular], seldu [instrumental, masculine, singular], seldeʀu [feminine, instrumental, singular], seldu [instrumental, neuter, singular], seldē [masculine, nominative, plural], seldō [feminine, nominative, plural], seldu [neuter, nominative, plural], seldā [accusative, masculine, plural], seldā [accusative, feminine, plural], seldu [accusative, neuter, plural], seldeʀō [genitive, masculine, plural], seldeʀō [feminine, genitive, plural], seldeʀō [genitive, neuter, plural], seldēm [dative, masculine, plural], seldum [dative, masculine, plural], seldēm [dative, feminine, plural], seldum [dative, feminine, plural], seldēm [dative, neuter, plural], seldum [dative, neuter, plural], seldēm [instrumental, masculine, plural], seldum [instrumental, masculine, plural], seldēm [feminine, instrumental, plural], seldum [feminine, instrumental, plural], seldēm [instrumental, neuter, plural], seldum [instrumental, neuter, plural]
  1. rare Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-seld-gmw-pro-adj-UCcMEsCG Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Welsh]

IPA: /sɛld/ Forms: seldiau [plural], seldi [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from English seld. Etymology templates: {{bor+|cy|en|seld}} Borrowed from English seld Head templates: {{cy-noun|f|seldiau|pl2=seldi}} seld f (plural seldiau or seldi, not mutable)
  1. dresser Tags: feminine, not-mutable Synonyms: dreser
    Sense id: en-seld-cy-noun-NRx303GF
  2. sideboard Tags: feminine, not-mutable Synonyms: seldfwrdd, ystlysfwrdd
    Sense id: en-seld-cy-noun-qZnjEMrO Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header, Furniture Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of Furniture: 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: seldfwrdd (english: sideboard)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 31 28 0 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 18 20 0 8 20 15 1 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": ", Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.191",
          "text": "knowing how far such an amitie is from the common use, and how seld seene and rarely found, I looke not to finde a competent judge."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Seldom."
      ],
      "id": "en-seld-en-adv-CDOWDZhl",
      "links": [
        [
          "Seldom",
          "seldom#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or Scotland dialectal) Seldom."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "selcouth"
        },
        {
          "word": "selly"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "infrequently"
        },
        {
          "word": "scarcely"
        },
        {
          "word": "uncommonly"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "at times"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "ever and anon"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "every once in a while"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "every now and then"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "every so often"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "from time to time"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "word": "intermittently"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "word": "irregularly"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "now and again"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "now and then"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "word": "occasionally"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "word": "on occasion"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "once in a while"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "word": "sometimes"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "word": "sporadically"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "word": "uncommonly"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "while"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "whilom"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seld"
}

{
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      "form": "selt",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selde",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "6": "selde",
        "cat2": "past participles"
      },
      "expansion": "seld (neuter singular selt, definite singular and plural selde)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "selt"
      },
      "expansion": "seld (neuter singular selt, definite singular and plural selde)",
      "name": "nn-part-d"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 15 16 0 11 23 17 1 2",
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          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 18 20 0 8 20 15 1 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "sold; past participle of selja"
      ],
      "id": "en-seld-nn-verb-W6DEphbs",
      "links": [
        [
          "sold",
          "sold"
        ],
        [
          "selja",
          "selja#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seld"
}

{
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      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "seld"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "seld n",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "extra": "seat, throne",
          "word": "setl"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 18 20 0 8 20 15 1 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "alternative form of setl (“seat, throne”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-seld-ang-noun-miCsV57V",
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        [
          "setl",
          "setl#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seld"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "sideboard",
      "translation": "sideboard",
      "word": "seldfwrdd"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "seld"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from English seld",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English seld.",
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    {
      "form": "seldiau",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "seldiau",
        "pl2": "seldi"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "dresser"
      ],
      "id": "en-seld-cy-noun-NRx303GF",
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        [
          "dresser",
          "dresser"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dreser"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "not-mutable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "cy",
          "name": "Furniture",
          "orig": "cy:Furniture",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "sideboard"
      ],
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        [
          "sideboard",
          "sideboard"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "seldfwrdd"
        },
        {
          "word": "ystlysfwrdd"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "not-mutable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/sɛld/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "seld"
}

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      "lang_code": "ang",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*seldaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *seldaz",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *seldaz.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gmw-infl-adj",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seld",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seld",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldanā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seld",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldeʀā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldumē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldeʀē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldumē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldeʀu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldeʀō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldeʀō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldeʀō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "adjective"
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      "expansion": "*seld",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "gmw-infl-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gmw-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/seld",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rare"
      ],
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        [
          "rare",
          "rare"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seld"
}
{
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    "English adverbs",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms with obsolete senses",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "cy:Furniture"
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  "etymology_number": "1",
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "selde",
        "id": "store",
        "t": "seat, store"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English selde (“seat, store”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ang",
        "3": "seld",
        "pos": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English seld (noun)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "settle"
      },
      "expansion": "English settle",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English selde (“seat, store”), from Old English seld (noun), neuter, metathetic form of setl (noun) (English settle).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "selds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "seld (plural selds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
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        "A seat, throne."
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        [
          "seat",
          "seat"
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        [
          "throne",
          "throne"
        ]
      ],
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        "(obsolete) A seat, throne."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
        "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shop (in Medieval Latin records selda or silda (cf. Latin sella (“seat, chair”)); also in Anglo-Norman form seude). Also, a stand for spectators."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
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        [
          "sella",
          "sella#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "seude",
          "seude#Old_French"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A shop (in Medieval Latin records selda or silda (cf. Latin sella (“seat, chair”)); also in Anglo-Norman form seude). Also, a stand for spectators."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seld"
}

{
  "categories": [
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    "English adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with obsolete senses",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "cy:Furniture"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
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        "pos": "a"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
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        "3": "seldor",
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English selde (adjective) and selde (adverb), a back-formation from Old English seldor (“more seldom”), seldost (“most seldom”).",
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    {
      "form": "more seld",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most seld",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "*seld",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "gmw-infl-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gmw-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/seld",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-West Germanic a-stem adjectives",
        "Proto-West Germanic adjectives",
        "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-West Germanic lemmas",
        "Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rare",
          "rare"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seld"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Welsh countable nouns",
    "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
    "Welsh feminine nouns",
    "Welsh lemmas",
    "Welsh non-mutable terms",
    "Welsh nouns",
    "Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines",
    "Welsh terms borrowed from English",
    "Welsh terms derived from English",
    "cy:Furniture"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "sideboard",
      "translation": "sideboard",
      "word": "seldfwrdd"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "seld"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from English seld",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English seld.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "seldiau",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seldi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "seldiau",
        "pl2": "seldi"
      },
      "expansion": "seld f (plural seldiau or seldi, not mutable)",
      "name": "cy-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "dresser"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dresser",
          "dresser"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dreser"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "not-mutable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sideboard"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sideboard",
          "sideboard"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "seldfwrdd"
        },
        {
          "word": "ystlysfwrdd"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "not-mutable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɛld/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "seld"
}

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