dell

• enPR: dĕl, IPA^(key): /dɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.

dell (plural dells)

1. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.^[1]
   • 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50

     To this day they dwell

     In a lonely dell.

   • 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:

     In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.

• dale
• dingle
• vale
• valley
• See also Thesaurus:valley

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Possibly from dell (valley). Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”).

dell (plural dells)

1. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
   • 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:

     Sweet doxies and dells

• 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11:

  A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.

• arch dell
• wapping dell

• "mloyjja" in Green's Dictionary of Slang.
• The Century Dictionary (online edition)
• "dell, n.2" in Oxford English Dictionary (online edition).

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

dell m (plural dej, definite delli, definite plural dejtë)

1. (anatomy) tendon
2. sinew

• “dell”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “dell”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[3]

From Arabic ظِلّ (ẓill).

• IPA^(key): /dɛll/
• Rhymes: -ɛll

dell m (plural dellijiet or dliel)

1. shade, shadow

dell (verbal noun dellal)

1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

dell

1. alternative form of delle

From Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow”)

• IPA^(key): /dell/, [deɫ]

dell f or n or m^[1]

1. dell, vale^[2]

Feminine

Strong ō-stem:

Masculine/Neuter

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: delle, dell, del
  • English: dell
  • Scots: dell

From the company name Dell, which has the similar pronunciation.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɛw˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɛw˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɛw˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: đéo

dell

1. (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of đéo.

dell

1. alternative form of del
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 17:

     dell, for till;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published 1867, page 17