Seld
Origin
From Middle English selde and seld, a back-formation from Old English seldor ("more seldom"), seldost ("most seldom").
Adverb
seld
- (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Seldom.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 191:knowing how far such an amitie is from the common use, and how seld seene and rarely found, I looke not to finde a competent judge.