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单词 sisel
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siseln.

Brit. /ˈsɪsəl/, U.S. /ˈsɪsəl/
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Ziesel.
Etymology: < German Ziesel zizel n. Compare souslik n.Compare Swedish sisel (late 19th cent.; < German).
Any of several Eurasian ground squirrels (genus Spermophilus), esp. the European souslik, S. citellus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Spermophilus (spermophile) > spermophilus citellus (suslik)
earless marmot1771
souslik1774
zizel1775
pouched marmot1870
sisel1879
1879 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 93 Of the Old World species the best known is the Sisel, or Suslik (Spermophilus citillus), which is abundant in Central and Eastern Europe, and in Siberia.
1894–5 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. III. 79 The suslik or sisel of North-Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
1926 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 41 2720 The author..discusses the respective problems of California (ground squirrels), South Africa (gerbilles), South Russia (sisels or spermophiles and mice), and Transbaikalia and Mongolia (tarabagans).
2001 P. E. S. Palmer & M. M. Reeder Imaging Trop. Dis. (ed. 2) II. xxiv. 270/2 In Kurdistan and the central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, mice, sisels, and jerboas are the carriers [of plague].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

siseladj.

Forms: Middle English sisel, Middle English sysel.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic sýsl active, busy, assiduous, and also the related nouns Old Icelandic sýsl , sýsla , Old Swedish sysla (Swedish syssla ), Old Danish syssel , sysæl , syslæ (Danish syssel ), all in sense ‘work, business’, and the verbs Old Icelandic sýsla , Old Swedish sysla (Swedish syssla ), Old Danish sysle (Danish sysle ), all in sense ‘to be busy’) < the same Germanic base as Old English sūsl misery, torment, torture, probably ultimately representing a differently suffixed form of the Germanic base of sought n. (compare the Germanic suffix seen in e.g. wissel n.).
English regional (northern). Obsolete.
Occupied, engaged, busy.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [adjective]
busylOE
sisela1400
importune1449
busied1576
resiant1583
pragmatical1590
doing1591
negotiated1604
practical1617
affairé1802
operative1816
occupied1897
a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Widow's Candle (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Helpes scho tha that turnes noht thair lof hir fra, Bot menskes hir..And er sysel in hir seruyse.
a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: St. John & Boy (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Quen halikirc began newli, Sain Ion was sisel and bisi In ordaining of prestes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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