Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To plant or sow an area with seeds. · To shed seeds (refers to plants) · To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. · To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. · A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant. · Any small seed-like fruit. · An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
] From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”). Cognates Cognate with Yola zeade (“seed”), North Frisian sead, seed, siad, Siid, sädj, säid (“seed”), Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Limburgish zaod (“seed”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sæd (“seed”), Faroese and Icelandic sáð (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Gothic *𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (*sēþs, “seed”); also Latin serō (“to sow, plant”), Latvian sēt (“to sow”), Lithuanian sėti (“to sow”), Bulgarian се́я (séja, “to sow, plant”), Czech sít (“to sow”), Macedonian сее (see, “to sow”), Polish siać (“to sow”), Russian се́ять (séjatʹ, “to sow”), Serbo-Croatian се̏јати, sȅjati, си̏јати, sȉjati (“to sow”), Slovak siať (“to sow”), Slovene sejáti (“to sow”), Ukrainian сі́яти (síjaty, “to sow”). More at sow.
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- Root classification mention*seh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionseedenm
- Inherited-form mentionsēdang
- Inherited-form mention*sādgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*sēdizgem-pro
- Derivation mention*seh₁-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionzeadeyol · seed
- Cognate mentionseadfrr
- Cognate mentionSäidstq · seed
- Cognate mentionsiedfy · seed
- Cognate mentionzaadnl · seed
- Cognate mentionSaatde · seed; sowing
- Cognate mentionzaodli · seed
- Cognate mentionsädsv · seed
- Cognate mention*𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃got · seed
- Cognate mentionserōla · to sow, plant
- Cognate mentionsētlv · to sow
- Cognate mentionsėtilt · to sow
- Cognate mentionсе́яbg · to sow, plant
- Cognate mentionsítcs · to sow
- Cognate mentionсееmk · to sow
- Cognate mentionsiaćpl · to sow
- Cognate mentionсе́ятьru · to sow
- Cognate mentionсе̏јатиsh
- Cognate mentionsiaťsk · to sow
- Cognate mentionsejátisl · to sow
- Cognate mentionсі́ятиuk · to sow
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