seeme

English

Verb

seeme (third-person singular simple present seemes, present participle seeming, simple past and past participle seemed)

1. Obsolete spelling of seem.

Anagrams

• Meese, semée, semee, Esmee, meese

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *seemen, from a Baltic language.

Noun

seeme (genitive seemne, partitive seemet)

1. seed

Declension

Declension of seeme (ÕS type 5/liige, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		seeme	seemned
accusative	nom.
	gen.	seemne
genitive			seemnete
partitive		seemet	seemneid
illative		seemnesse	seemnetesse seemneisse
inessive		seemnes	seemnetes seemneis
elative		seemnest	seemnetest seemneist
allative		seemnele	seemnetele seemneile
adessive		seemnel	seemnetel seemneil
ablative		seemnelt	seemnetelt seemneilt
translative		seemneks	seemneteks seemneiks
terminative		seemneni	seemneteni
essive		seemnena	seemnetena
abessive		seemneta	seemneteta
comitative		seemnega	seemnetega

Derived terms

• seemnepurse
• seemnevedelik

Middle English

Verb

seeme

1. alternative form of semen (“to seem”)

Votic

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from seemee according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:Votic entry guidelines or recent spelling standards of the language.

Alternative forms

• seemen, seemene

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *seemen.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈseːmeː/, [ˈsʲeːmʲe]
• (Jõgõperä) IPA^(key): /ˈseːmeː/, [ˈseːme]
• (Central Votic) IPA^(key): /ˈseːmeː/, [ˈseːmeː] ~ [ˈsi̯emɪ̯̆e]
• (Eastern Votic) IPA^(key): /ˈseːmeh/, [ˈseːmeɦ]
• Rhymes: -eːmeː
• Hyphenation: see‧me

Noun

seeme

1. seed

Inflection

Declension of seeme (type XIII/seeme, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	seeme	seemened
genitive	seemene	seemenije
partitive	seemette	seemeniit
illative	seemene, seemenese	seemeniise
inessive	seemenez	seemeniiz
elative	seemeness	seemeniiss
allative	seemenelle	seemeniille
adessive	seemenell	seemeniill
ablative	seemenelt	seemeniilt
translative	seemenessi	seemeniissi
'Standardized' inflection based on the Vaipooli dialects; see WT:AVOT. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects. *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “seemee”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Tallinn