Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo look at; see; mind; regard; favour. · To look to; see to; attend to; care for; take care of; provide for; treat; arrange. · To look about oneself; look to oneself.
From Middle English beseen, from Old English besēon (“to see, look, look around, behold, observe, look after, go to see, visit, provide for”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisehwan, from Proto-Germanic *bisehwaną (“to look, besee”), equivalent to be- + see. Cognate with Dutch bezien (“to look at, review”), German besehen (“to have a look at, inspect”), Danish bese (“to inspect”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbeseenenm
- Inherited-form mentionbesēonang · to see, look, look around, behold, observe, look after, go to see, visit, provide for
- Inherited-form mention*bisehwangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*bisehwanągem-pro · to look, besee
- Cognate mentionbeziennl · to look at, review
- Cognate mentionbesehende · to have a look at, inspect
- Cognate mentionbeseda · to inspect
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