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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sehwaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.xʷɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*sehwaną
- to see
Inflection
Note: Voiced Verner alternant gw becomes w, but g next to u.
Conjugation of *sehwaną (strong class 5)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *sehwō | *sehwaų | — | *sehwai | *? |
| 2nd singular | *sihwizi | *sehwaiz | *sehw | *sehwazai | *sehwaizau |
| 3rd singular | *sihwidi | *sehwai | *sehwadau | *sehwadai | *sehwaidau |
| 1st dual | *sehwōz | *sehwaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *sehwadiz | *sehwaidiz | *sehwadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *sehwamaz | *sehwaim | — | *sehwandai | *sehwaindau |
| 2nd plural | *sihwid | *sehwaid | *sihwid | *sehwandai | *sehwaindau |
| 3rd plural | *sehwandi | *sehwain | *sehwandau | *sehwandai | *sehwaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *sahw | *sēwį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *saht | *sēwīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *sahw | *sēwī | |||
| 1st dual | *sēgū | *sēwīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *sēgudiz | *sēwīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *sēgum | *sēwīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *sēgud | *sēwīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *sēgun | *sēwīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *sehwandz | *sewanaz | |||
Derived terms
- *bisehwaną
- *siuniz
- *uzsehwaną
Descendants
- Old English: sēon
- Middle English: seen
- Scots: se, sie
- English: see
- Middle English: seen
- Old Frisian: siā
- Saterland Frisian: sjo
- West Frisian: sjen
- Old Saxon: sehan
- Middle Low German: sēn
- Low German: sehn
- Middle Low German: sēn
- Old Dutch: sian
- Middle Dutch: sien
- Dutch: zien
- Afrikaans: sien
- Limburgish: zeen
- Dutch: zien
- Middle Dutch: sien
- Old High German: sehan
- Middle High German: sëhen; sēn (chiefly East Central); sien (West Central)
- Central Franconian: sehn, senn, siehn, sinn
- Hunsrik: sihn
- German: sehen
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: sehne
- Vilamovian: zaon
- Yiddish: זען (zen)
- ⇒ Alemannic German: gsë
- ⇒ Central Franconian: gesinn
- ⇒ Luxembourgish: gesinn
- Central Franconian: sehn, senn, siehn, sinn
- Middle High German: sëhen; sēn (chiefly East Central); sien (West Central)
- Old Norse: sjá, séa, siá
- Icelandic: sjá
- Faroese: síggja, sjá
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sjå
- Norwegian Bokmål: se
- Old Swedish: sēa, sīa
- Swedish: se, sia
- Old Danish: sē
- Danish: se
- Westrobothnian: si (sjå)
- Elfdalian: sją̊
- Jamtish: sjá
- Gutnish: seie
- Scanian: sé
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽 (saiƕan)