See sellan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "It is advisable if he taketh mallow with its sprouts; let him seethe them in water, give this to be drunk",
"text": "Leech Book, Leech Book, Volume II, xxxiii.\nRǣd bið ġif hē nimð mealan mid hire cīþum, sēoþe on wætere, sele drincan.",
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{
"english": "If it is by faith that they find Thee who do find Thee, give me that faith.",
"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\nĠef ðē þurh trēowa findon þā ðe þē findon, sile mē þā trēowa.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "I'd rather give her to you than to someone else. Stay with me!",
"roman": "Lēofre mē is þæt iċ hīe selle þē þonne ōðrum menn. Wuna mid mē!",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 29:19",
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"english": "So likewise those unrighteous judges who pervert their judgments, always for gain, and not for justice, and always offer their justice for sale, and thus sell themselves for the sake of money,...",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Passion of St.Alban, Martyr\"\nEall swa þa unriht-wisan deman þe heora domas awendað, æfre be þam sceattum na be soðfæstnysse and habbað æfre to cepe heora soðfæstnysse, and swa hi sylfe syllað wið sceattum...",
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"ipa": "/ˈsel.lɑn/"
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{
"ipa": "[ˈseɫ.ɫɑn]"
}
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"word": "siellan"
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"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"present"
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"english": "It is advisable if he taketh mallow with its sprouts; let him seethe them in water, give this to be drunk",
"text": "Leech Book, Leech Book, Volume II, xxxiii.\nRǣd bið ġif hē nimð mealan mid hire cīþum, sēoþe on wætere, sele drincan.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "If it is by faith that they find Thee who do find Thee, give me that faith.",
"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\nĠef ðē þurh trēowa findon þā ðe þē findon, sile mē þā trēowa.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"english": "I'd rather give her to you than to someone else. Stay with me!",
"roman": "Lēofre mē is þæt iċ hīe selle þē þonne ōðrum menn. Wuna mid mē!",
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"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Passion of St.Alban, Martyr\"\nEall swa þa unriht-wisan deman þe heora domas awendað, æfre be þam sceattum na be soðfæstnysse and habbað æfre to cepe heora soðfæstnysse, and swa hi sylfe syllað wið sceattum...",
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{
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],
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