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[edit] English

[edit] Noun

sein (plural seins)

  1. Archaic spelling of seine.

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sein m. (oblique plural seins, nominative singular seins, nominative plural sein)

  1. breast (anatomy)

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sein

  1. child

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[edit] Etymology

Either borrowed from English sign or borrowed from Old French variants sein or seing. Both are derived from Latin signum.[1] The word zegen derives from the same source.

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sein n. (plural seinen, diminutive seintje)

  1. signal

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  1. ^ sein; in J. de Vries & F. de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, 1986 (14de druk)

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sein

  1. first-person singular present indicative of seinen.
  2. imperative of seinen.

[edit] Estonian

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[edit] Etymology

An old Baltic loanword, cf. siena. Finnish seinä is of the same origin.

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sein (??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

  1. wall

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[edit] Finnish

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  • Hyphenation: sein
  • Rhymes: -ein
  • IPA: /sein/

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sein

  1. Genitive singular form of sei.
  2. Instructive plural form of sei.

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[edit] French

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From Latin sinus. Compare Italian seno, Romanian sân, Romansch sain, Portuguese seio, Spanish seno.

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sein m. (plural seins)

  1. (anatomy) breast
  2. centre, heart, middle
    au sein de
    at the heart of
    in the middle of

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[edit] German

German Wikipedia has articles on:

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn (to be), from Proto-Germanic *wesanan (to be), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h₁es- (to be, exist). Cognate with Dutch zijn (to be), Old English sēon (to be). More at sooth.

[edit] Verb

sein (irregular, third-person singular simple present ist, past tense war, auxiliary sein, past participle gewesen)

  1. (with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) To be
    Das ist schön.
    That is beautiful.
    Das ist ein Auto.
    That is a car.
  2. (auxiliary) to have; forms the present perfect and past perfect tense of intransitive verbs that do not use the reflexive pronoun
    Er ist alt geworden.
    He has become old.
  3. (intransitive) To exist; there be
    Mir ist Angst.
    For me there is fear. (“I am afraid.”)
  4. (with an indirect object and no subject) It is, be
    Mir ist kalt.
    To me it is cold. (“I am cold.”)
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The first and third person plural imperative forms are identical to the subjunctive (using the stem sei- for all forms) rather than the indicative. This is not normally noticeable in regular verbs, but since this verb is very irregular, the indicative and subjunctive forms differ:

  • seien wir — “let’s be”
  • seien Sie — (formal or plural) “be”, “may they be”

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn (reflexive possessive pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (his, her, its, their, reflexive possessive pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *seinos, genitive of *só (that). Cognate with Low German sien (his, its), Dutch zijn (his, its), Danish sin (his, her, its, their), Old English sīn (his, its).

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sein

  1. (possessive) his
  2. (possessive) its (when the owning object/article/thing/animal etc., is neuter (das) or masculine (der))
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sein

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽

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  • (Rumantsch Grischun) sain
  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sagn

[edit] Etymology

From Latin sinus (compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Spanish seno).

[edit] Noun

sein m.

  1. (Sursilvan, anatomy) breast (of a woman)

[edit] Related terms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pèz
  • (Sutsilvan) péz
  • (Puter, Vallader) pet
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