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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sehwan
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sehwaną.
Verb
*sehwan[1]
- to see
Inflection
| Strong class 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *sehwan | |
| 1st sg. past | *sahw | |
| 3rd pl. past | *sāgun | |
| Past ptcple | *sewan | |
| Infinitive | *sehwan | |
| Genitive infin. | *sehwannjas | |
| Dative infin. | *sehwannjē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *sehwannju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *sehu | *sahw |
| 2nd singular | *sihwiʀi | *sāwī |
| 3rd singular | *sihwidi | *sahw |
| 1st plural | *sehum | *sāgum |
| 2nd plural | *sihwid | *sāgud |
| 3rd plural | *sehwand | *sāgun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *sehwē | *sāwī |
| 2nd singular | *sehwēs | *sāwī |
| 3rd singular | *sehwē | *sāwī |
| 1st plural | *sehwēm | *sāwīm |
| 2nd plural | *sehwēþ | *sāwīd |
| 3rd plural | *sehwēn | *sāwīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *sehw | |
| Plural | *sihwid | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *sehwandī | *sewan |
Derived terms
- *gasehwan
- *sihti
Descendants
- Old English: sēon
- Middle English: seen, sein, sien; seon, son, suen
- English: see
- Scots: se, sie, see
- Yola: zee, zey, zie, ze, sau
- Middle English: seen, sein, sien; seon, son, suen
- 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
- Javindo: sien, siet
- Jersey Dutch: zîn, zîne
- 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
- Mòcheno: sechen
- Pennsylvania German: sehne
- Vilamovian: zaon
- Yiddish: זען (zen)
- Central Franconian: sehn, senn, siehn, sinn
- Middle High German: sëhen; sēn (chiefly East Central); sien (West Central)
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 178: “PWGmc *sehwan”