Where does “seal” come from?
Seal comes from Middle English sele, from Old English seolh, from Latin sigillum meaning "small mark or image," from Latin signum meaning "sign or mark," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ser- meaning "to bind or connect."
seal (English): A pinniped , particularly an earless seal or...
Definitions
- A pinniped , particularly an earless seal or...
Ancestry of “seal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | sel | — |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | sëel | — |
| 3 | Latin | sigillum | figurine, statuette; seal |
| 4 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “seal”