seller

English Online Dictionary. What means seller‎? What does seller mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlɚ/ enPR: sĕl-ər
• Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
• Homophone: cellar

Etymology 1

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

seller (plural sellers)

1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

2. Something which sells.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Obsolete spelling of cellar.

Anagrams

• Ellers, ellers, resell

Estonian

Etymology

From German Sellerie.

Noun

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

1. celery

Declension

References

• seller in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Etymology

From selle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.le/ ~ /se.le/
• Homophone: sceller

Verb

seller

1. to saddle

Conjugation

Related terms

• selle
• desseller

Further reading

• “seller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

seller

1. Alternative form of sellere

Norman

Etymology

selle (“saddle”) +‎ -er

Verb

seller

1. (Jersey) to saddle

Related terms

• sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
• sellyi m (“saddler”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

seller

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

Etymology 2

Noun

seller m

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

Verb

seller

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seller f

1. indefinite plural of selle

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

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

Pronoun

seller

1. that, that one

Declension

Determiner

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

Determiner

seller

1. dative feminine of seller: that, to that

References

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