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selo

sela

masc nom sg of sela (adj); masc nom sg of sela (noun)

1. rock; rocky; stone; stony
2. rock; stone
3. crystal; gem; sapphire
4. name of a Brahman teacher; name of an arahant monk; lit. rock

Built from

• sel — root · stone, rock
  The root *skel- meant 'to cut or split'; stone is the material left when rock is split or broken. Related to Sanskrit śilā and English shale, shell — all from the same Indo-European base, with the sense of something cleaved or fractured.
• -a — ending · masculine nominative singular
  Standard masculine nominative singular ending in -a, marking the citation form and nominative case of this o-stem noun.

Etymology. From Indo-European *skel- 'to cut, split', also found in Sanskrit śilā 'stone, rock' and English shale, shell. The root image is of stone as something split or fractured from a larger mass. No prefix.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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