dell

See also: Dell, Dëll, and dell'

English

Pronunciation
  • enPR: dĕl, IPA(key): /dɛl/
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow, abyss”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *dalą (“valley, dale”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰol-, *dʰel- (“an arch, vaulting, curve, curvature, cavity”). Cognate with Dutch del (“a dell”), German Delle (“a hollow”).

Noun

dell (plural dells)

  1. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.[1]
Synonyms
Translations
valley — see valley

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

dell (plural dells)

  1. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
Derived terms

References
  1. Brown, Lesley (1993) The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon, →ISBN

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).[1]

Noun

dell m (indefinite plural dej, definite singular delli, definite plural dejt)

  1. (anatomy) tendon
  2. sinew

Declension
Declension of dell
indefinite forms
(trajta të pashquara)		 definite forms
(trajta të shquara)
singular
(numri njëjës)		 plural
(numri shumës)		 singular
(numri njëjës)		 plural
(numri shumës)
nominative
(emërore)		 (një) dell (disa) dej delli dejt
accusative
(kallëzore)		 (një) dell (disa) dej dellin dejt
genitive
(gjinore)
(i/e/të/së)		 (një) delli (disa) dejve dellit dejvet
dative
(dhanore)		 (një) delli (disa) dejve dellit dejvet
ablative
(rrjedhore)
(prej)		 (një) delli (disa) dejsh dellit dejvet

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 87

Maltese
Root
d-l-l
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic ظِلّ‎ (ẓill).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɛll/

Noun

dell m (plural dellijiet or dliel)

  1. shade, shadow

Manx

Verb

dell (verbal noun dellal)

  1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
dellghellnell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

Noun

dell

  1. Alternative form of delle

Westrobothnian

Preposition

dell

  1. Alternative form of dill

Yola

Preposition

dell

  1. Alternative form of del
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:
      dell, for till;
      ——————

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 17
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