Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryWithout moisture; dry. · Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless. · Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.
From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated, shrivelled; brittle; bare; dead, lifeless; barren, useless”), from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, withered; barren; sere”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews-, *sh₂ews- (“to be dry”). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry and coarse”), Greek αὖος (ávos, “dry”), Lithuanian sausas (“dry”), Middle Low German sôr (Low German soor (“arid, dry”)), Old Church Slavonic соухъ (suχŭ, “dry”). Doublet of sear and sare.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*h₂sews-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionserenm
- Inherited-form mentionsēarang
- Inherited-form mention*sauʀ(ī)gmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*sauzazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*h₂sews-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionzoornl
- Cognate mentionαὖοςel
- Cognate mentionsausaslt
- Cognate mentionsôrgml
- Cognate mentionsoornds
- Cognate mentionсоухъcu
- Doublet mentionsearen
- Doublet mentionsareen
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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