In many religious and philosophical traditions, there is a belief that a soul is "the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being".
The Modern English noun soul is derived from Old English sΔwol, sΔwel. The earliest attestations reported in the Oxford English Dictionary are from the 8th century. In King Alfred's translation of De Consolatione Philosophiae, it is used to refer to the immaterial, spiritual, or thinking aspect of a person, as contrasted with the person's physical body; in the Vespasian Psalter 77.50, it means "life" or "animate existence".
The Old English word is cognate with other historical Germanic terms for the same idea, including Old Frisian sΔle, sΔl (which could also mean "salvation", or "solemn oath"), Gothic saiwala, Old High German sΔula, sΔla, Old Saxon sΔola, and Old Norse sΔla. Present-day cognates include Dutch ziel and German Seele.
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