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seldom
seldom:
[OE]
Seldom
goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *
selda
-, of which the underlying notion appears to have been ‘strange and rare’. Its modern Germanic relatives include German
selten
, Dutch
zelten
, Swedish
sällan
, and Danish
sjelden
.