seller

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell +‎ -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell +‎ -er (patient) (sense 2). Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (a seller; dealer).

Noun

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seller (plural sellers)

  1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
    Alisha was a seller of fine books.
  2. Something which sells.
    Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.
    • 1980, Marianne Wiggins, Went South, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 87:
      Still, she sat in her chair and read it and reread it, six, seven times. She was pleased with it, she was pleased with herself. This time for sure, she said to herself. This one’s a seller. Really big.
Derived terms
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Translations
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Etymology 2

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Alternative forms.

Noun

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seller (plural sellers)

  1. Obsolete spelling of cellar.

Anagrams

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Estonian

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Etymology

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From German Sellerie.

Noun

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seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

  1. celery

Declension

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Declension of seller (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative seller sellerid
accusative nom.
gen. selleri
genitive sellerite
partitive sellerit sellereid
illative sellerisse selleritesse
sellereisse
inessive selleris sellerites
sellereis
elative sellerist selleritest
sellereist
allative sellerile selleritele
sellereile
adessive selleril selleritel
sellereil
ablative sellerilt selleritelt
sellereilt
translative selleriks selleriteks
sellereiks
terminative sellerini selleriteni
essive sellerina selleritena
abessive sellerita selleriteta
comitative selleriga selleritega

References

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French

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Etymology

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From selle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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seller

  1. to saddle

Conjugation

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Further reading

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Middle English

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Noun

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seller

  1. Alternative form of sellere

Norman

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Etymology

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selle (saddle) +‎ -er

Verb

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seller

  1. (Jersey) to saddle
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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seller

  1. indefinite plural of selle m or f
  2. indefinite plural of selle m

Etymology 2

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Noun

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seller m

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

Verb

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seller

  1. present tense of selle (non-standard since 1981)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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seller f

  1. indefinite plural of selle

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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Cognate to German selbig (the same (one)).

Pronoun

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seller

  1. that, that one

Declension

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Declension of seller
masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative seller selle, selli sell selle, selli
dative sellem, sem sellere, sellre, seller sellem, sem selle
accusative seller selle, selli sell selle, selli

Determiner

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seller

  1. that
    • 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:
      sell Haus datt driwwe
      that house over there
      []
      In sellem alde Glaawe maag en bissel Waahret schtecke.
      In that old belief there may be a bit of truth.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:seller.

Declension

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Declension of seller
masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative seller selle, selli sell selle, selli
dative sellem, sem sellere, sellre, seller sellem, sem selle
accusative seller selle, selli sell selle, selli

Determiner

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seller

  1. dative feminine of seller: that, to that

References

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  • Earl C Haag, Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar (2010), page 204