seo

seo

See also: Seo, SEO, seó, séo, and sẹo

Galician

Alternative forms

• sen (Northeastern Galician)

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sẽo, from Latin sinus. Cognate with Portuguese seio and Spanish seno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈseʊ]

Noun

seo m (plural seos)

1. (anatomy, also figuratively) bosom
2. (anatomy) breast

   Synonym: peito

3. (anatomy) sinus
4. (anatomy) womb
5. (geography) lowland

References

• “seo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “seo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “seo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “seo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “seo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Irish

Alternative forms

• so (Munster)

Etymology

From Old Irish so.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ/

Determiner

seo

1. this

Usage notes

• Used with the definite article, as: an abhainn seo (“this river”)

Pronoun

seo

1. this

   Seo mo theach. ― This is my house.

Adverb

seo

1. here (implies motion)

   Cuir é seo.

   Put it here.

Derived terms

• seo duit

See also

• anseo

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Noun

sēo m

1. sea

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: sêe f or m
  • Dutch: zee f
    • Afrikaans: see
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: sei
    • Javindo: see
    • Negerhollands: see
    • → Saramaccan: zé
    • → Sranan Tongo: se
  • Limburgish: zieë f
  • West Flemish: zji m or f, zêe

Further reading

• “sēo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se͜oː/

Alternative forms

• siu, sia, sio, þeo, þio

Article

sēo f

1. nominative feminine singular of se: the

   sēo cwēn ― the queen

Determiner

sēo f

1. nominative feminine singular of sē: that (agreeing with feminine nouns)

Pronoun

sēo f

1. nominative feminine singular of sē: she, that one

Descendants

• Middle English: seo, si, se, zi

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *sehwǭ (“pupil”). Akin to Old High German seha (“pupil”).

Noun

sēo f

1. pupil (of the eye)

Declension

Declension of seo (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sēo	sēon
accusative	sēon	sēon
genitive	sēon	sēona
dative	sēon	sēom, sēoum

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, whence also Old Dutch and Old Saxon sēo, Old English sæ, Old Norse sær, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 (saiws).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̠eːo/

Noun

sēo m

1. sea

Derived terms

• Wentilsēo (“the Mediterranean sea”, literally “the Vandal-sea”)
• sēfogal (“seabird”)
• sēolīdante (“sea-travellers; sailors”)

Descendants

• Middle High German: sē m (rarely f)
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: sea

    Mòcheno: sea

  • German: See m (“lake”), See f (“sea”) (latter in part from Low German)
  • Luxembourgish: Séi

References

1. Joseph Wright, 'An Old High German Primer, Second Edition'

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Old Irish

Determiner

seo

1. Alternative spelling of so

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• sēu

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, whence also Old Dutch sēo, Old English sǣ, Old Frisian sē, Old High German sēo, Old Norse sær.

Noun

sēo m

1. sea

Declension

Declension of sēo (masculine wa-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	sēo	sēwos
accusative	sēo	sēwos
genitive	sēwes	sēwō
dative	sēwe	sēwum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: sê
  • German Low German: See
  • Plautdietsch: See

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish so.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ/

Determiner

seo

1. this

Usage notes

• Used with the definite article:

  an abhainn seo - this river

Pronoun

seo (demonstrative)

1. this

   Seo mo dhachaigh.

   This is my home.

   Seo mo bhean.

   This is / Meet my wife.

Derived terms

• iad seo
• mar seo

Adverb

seo

1. here (implies motion)

   Cuir e seo.

   Put it here.

Derived terms

• seo chaidh
• thuige seo

Related terms

• an-seo

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan seu, from Latin sedes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseo/ [ˈse.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: se‧o

Noun

seo f (plural seos)

1. (Aragón, Catalonia) cathedral

Further reading

• “seo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sɛw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂɛw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂɛw˧˧] ~ [sɛw˧˧]

Adjective

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Verb

seo

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