wesele

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === wassele, wesel, wesil, wesile, wezele wasyll, wesyl, weysyl, weesylle, whesille (Late Middle English) === Etymology === Inherited from Old English weosule, from Proto-West Germanic *wisulā, from Proto-Germanic *wisulǭ. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwɛ̞ː.zəl(ə)/, /ˈwɛ.zəl(ə)/ Hyphenation: we‧se‧le === Noun === wēsele (plural weseles) weasel, polecat a meal made of a pig or capon stuffed with pork mince ==== Descendants ==== English: weasel Middle Scots: quhasill, wasyll, wasyll Scots: whaisle, whaisel, whaizle, wheesel, weasel (associated with whaisle "to wheeze") ==== References ==== “wēsel(e), n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 December 2025. == Polish == === Alternative forms === wesiele (Western Lublin, Puławy) węsiele (Near Masovian, Grudów, Wola Rębkowska) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish wesele, wesiele, wiesele, wiesiele, from Proto-Slavic *veselьje. By surface analysis, wesoły +‎ -ie. Compare Czech veselí. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛlɛ Syllabification: we‧se‧le Homophone: weselę === Noun === wesele n (augmentative weselisko, related adjective weselny) (countable, cooking, ethnography) wedding reception (festivities accompanying a marriage ceremony) Synonyms: gody, przyjęcie weselne, (dialectal) wesoło Antonym: stypa zaprosić na wesele ― to invite to a wedding reception Zostałem zaproszony na wesele. ― I got invited to the wedding reception. (uncountable, archaic) merriment, mirth (emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter) Synonyms: radość, wesołość ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Adverb === wesele (Middle Polish) synonym of wesoło (“merrily”) (in a merry manner) === Further reading === “wesele”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “wesele”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wesele”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Paweł Kupiszewski (17 April 2023), “WESELE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century] Wiesław Morawski (17 April 2023), “WESELE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century] Samuel Bogumił Linde (1814), “wesele”, in Słownik języka polskiego, volume 4, page 169 Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “wesele”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861, volume II, page 1825 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wesele”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 510 Woliński, Marcin; Saloni, Zygmunt; Wołosz, Robert; Gruszczyński, Włodzimierz; Skowrońska, Danuta; Bronk, Zbigniew (2020), “wesele”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎[4], 4. online edition, Warszawa