Zell

See also: zel'l' and ZELL

English

Proper noun

Zell

1. Obsolete name for the island of Yell, 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. A town in Germany in the region of Lower Saxony.
3. A town in Austria in the state of Salzburg.

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German zelle, from Old High German zella, borrowed from Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-. 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

 

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