See sellen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "\"How are you, apostles? Why won't you eat? / I was bought and sold today for our food.\"",
"ref": "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), 29 May 2019:",
"text": "Wou ſitte ye poſtles. a[n]t wi nule ye ete. / ic am ibouſt a[n]t iſold. to day foꝛ oure mete.",
"translation": "\"How are you, apostles? Why won't you eat? / I was bought and sold today for our food.\"",
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"english": "[…] so nobody could buy or sell [anything] unless they had the mark, the name of the Beast, or the number denoting his name.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 13:17, folio 122, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "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",
"translation": "[…] so nobody could buy or sell [anything] unless they had the mark, the name of the Beast, or the number denoting his name.",
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"english": "\"I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me.\"",
"ref": "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), 29 May 2019:",
"text": "I nul ſulle my louerd foꝛ noneſ cunneſ eiſte. / bote hit be foꝛ þe þritti platen. þat he me bitaiſte.",
"translation": "\"I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me.\"",
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"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Old English sellan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "sellan"
},
"expansion": "Inherited from Old English sellan",
"name": "inh+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*salljan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *salljan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*saljaną",
"t": "to give"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *saljaną (“to give”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Old English sellan, from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną (“to give”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "selleth",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sellynge",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "solde",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sold",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "irregular weak",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "enm-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sellen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "to sellen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "selle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "selle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "solde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "selde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sellest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "soldest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "seldest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "selleth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "selth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "solde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "selde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "selle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "solde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "selde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "selle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sellen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "selle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "solden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "solde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "selden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "selde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "selleth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "selle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sellynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sellende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sold",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "seld",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ysold",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "yseld",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sel",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "selle",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sellyn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sillen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sille",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "syllen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "seollen",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "sullan",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "sellenn",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Ormulum"
]
},
{
"form": "cellyn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "zelle",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Kent"
]
},
{
"form": "sulle",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sullen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "suylle",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "seolle",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "sellen",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "selleth",
"2": "sellynge",
"3": "solde",
"4": "sold"
},
"expansion": "sellen (third-person singular simple present selleth, present participle sellynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative solde, past participle sold)",
"name": "enm-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sell",
"2": "sold",
"3s2": "selth",
"c": "irr",
"c2": "de"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To grant; to confer or bestow:",
"To gift; to give or confer a present."
],
"links": [
[
"grant",
"grant"
],
[
"confer",
"confer"
],
[
"bestow",
"bestow"
],
[
"gift",
"gift"
],
[
"give",
"give"
],
[
"confer",
"confer"
],
[
"present",
"present"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To grant; to confer or bestow:",
"To serve or administer; to give comestibles."
],
"links": [
[
"grant",
"grant"
],
[
"confer",
"confer"
],
[
"bestow",
"bestow"
],
[
"serve",
"serve"
],
[
"administer",
"administer"
],
[
"give",
"give"
],
[
"comestible",
"comestible"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To grant; to confer or bestow:",
"To sacrifice or hand over (one's life)"
],
"links": [
[
"grant",
"grant"
],
[
"confer",
"confer"
],
[
"bestow",
"bestow"
],
[
"sacrifice",
"sacrifice"
],
[
"hand",
"hand"
],
[
"life",
"life#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
65,
70
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
62,
66
]
],
"english": "\"How are you, apostles? Why won't you eat? / I was bought and sold today for our food.\"",
"ref": "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), 29 May 2019:",
"text": "Wou ſitte ye poſtles. a[n]t wi nule ye ete. / ic am ibouſt a[n]t iſold. to day foꝛ oure mete.",
"translation": "\"How are you, apostles? Why won't you eat? / I was bought and sold today for our food.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
27,
32
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
27,
31
]
],
"english": "[…] so nobody could buy or sell [anything] unless they had the mark, the name of the Beast, or the number denoting his name.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 13:17, folio 122, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "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",
"translation": "[…] so nobody could buy or sell [anything] unless they had the mark, the name of the Beast, or the number denoting his name.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To sell; to make a sale or transaction"
],
"links": [
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"sale",
"sale"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"To sell; to make a sale or transaction:"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To sell; to make a sale or transaction:",
"To market; to put up for sale."
],
"links": [
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"sale",
"sale"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction"
],
[
"market",
"market"
],
[
"put up",
"put up"
],
[
"sale",
"sale"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To sell; to make a sale or transaction:",
"To sell into slavery; to enslave for money."
],
"links": [
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"sale",
"sale"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction"
],
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"slavery",
"slavery"
],
[
"enslave",
"enslave"
],
[
"money",
"money"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"enm:Religion"
],
"glosses": [
"To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).",
"To sell one's soul; to consign one's soul to Hell."
],
"links": [
[
"give",
"give"
],
[
"exchange",
"exchange"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction#English"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"soul",
"soul"
],
[
"consign",
"consign"
],
[
"Hell",
"Hell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"tags": [
"negative",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).",
"To weaken, adulterate or lose (in exchange)"
],
"links": [
[
"give",
"give"
],
[
"exchange",
"exchange"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction#English"
],
[
"weaken",
"weaken"
],
[
"adulterate",
"adulterate"
],
[
"lose",
"lose"
],
[
"exchange",
"exchange#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually negative) To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).",
"(figuratively) To weaken, adulterate or lose (in exchange)"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"negative",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
6,
11
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
9,
15
]
],
"english": "\"I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me.\"",
"ref": "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), 29 May 2019:",
"text": "I nul ſulle my louerd foꝛ noneſ cunneſ eiſte. / bote hit be foꝛ þe þritti platen. þat he me bitaiſte.",
"translation": "\"I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To betray; to give up or hand over (usually a person)"
],
"links": [
[
"betray",
"betray"
],
[
"give up",
"give up"
],
[
"hand over",
"hand over"
],
[
"person",
"person#English"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To get revenge (for a transgression or wrong)."
],
"links": [
[
"get",
"get"
],
[
"revenge",
"revenge"
],
[
"transgression",
"transgression#English"
],
[
"wrong",
"wrong#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛlən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsilən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈzylən/",
"note": "Southern, Southwest Midlands"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsylən/",
"note": "Southern, Southwest Midlands"
}
],
"word": "sellen"
}
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