saveir

Old French

Verb

saveir

1. Alternative form of savoir
   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou‎^[[1]:

     Dez ke Richart le sout, un espie enveia
     Saveir u Thiebaut ert, e combien gent il a.

     As soon as Richard knew about it, he sent a spy
     to know where Thibalt was, and how many people he had with him.

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem sev distinct from the unstressed stem sav, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of saveir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		saveir			aveir seü
gerund		en savant, sachant			gerund of aveir + past participle
present participle		savant, sachant
past participle		seü
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	sai	ses	set	savons	savez	sevent
	imperfect	saveie	saveies	saveit	saviiens, saviens	saviiez, saviez	saveient
	preterite	soi	seüs	sot	seümes	seüstes	sorent
	future	savrai, sarai	savras, saras	savra, sara	savrons, sarons	savreiz, savrez, sareiz, sarez	savront, saront
	conditional	savreie, sareie	savreies, sareies	savreit, sareit	savriiens, savriens, sariiens, sariens	savriiez, savriez, sariiez, sariez	savreient, sareient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of aveir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of aveir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of aveir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of aveir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of aveir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	sache	saches	sache	sachiens, sachons	sachiez	sachent
	imperfect	seüsse	seüsses	seüst	seüssons, seüssiens	seüsseiz, seüssez, seüssiez	seüssent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of aveir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of aveir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	sache	—	sachiens, sachons	sachiez	—

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) savair
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) saver

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Classial Latin sapiō, sapere (“taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p- (“to try, to research”).

Verb

saveir

1. (Surmiran) to know (how to do something)