Zell

See also: zelʹlʹ and ZELL

English

Proper noun

Zell

  1. Former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands.
    • 1761, William Thompson, A Copy of Thompson's Justification, Founded on the Solid Principles of Truth and Public Virtue, London: [s.n.], page 8:
      I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]
  2. Ellipsis of Zell am See, a town in Salzburg, Austria.

Hunsrik

Etymology

    Inherited from Middle High German zelle.[1] The cytological sense is possibly a semantic loan from German Zelle.

    Cognate with German Zelle and Luxembourgish Zell.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sel/
    • Rhymes: -el
    • Syllabification: Zell

    Noun

    Zell f (plural Zelle)

    1. cell (room in a prison or jail)
    2. (cytology) cell (basic unit of a living organism)

    Derived terms

    • Bludzell
    • Stammzell

    References

    1. ^ Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Zell”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 108, column 2

    Luxembourgish

    Etymology

      From Middle High German zelle, from Old High German zella, from Latin cella. Cognate with German Zelle, English cell.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /tsæl/
        Rhymes: -æl

      Noun

      Zell f (plural Zellen)

      1. cell
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