seien
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See also: séien
Basque
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[edit]seien
Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]seien
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]seien
- first/third-person plural subjunctive I of sein
- 1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont:
- "Im Namen des Königs, und kraft besonderer von Seiner Majestät uns übertragenen Gewalt, alle seine Unterthanen, wes Standes sie seien, zugleich die Ritter des goldnen Vließes zu richten, erkennen wir—"
- "In the King's name, and invested by his Majesty with authority to judge all his subjects of whatever rank [they be], not excepting the knights of the Golden Fleece, we declare—"
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old English seċġan (“to say”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną.
Alternative forms
[edit]- saien, sain, saine, san, sæin, sæcgen, sæcgene, sæcgæn, sæcgan, sægen, sægenne, sæggen, sæggene, sayen, secgan, secgæn, secgon, secgen, secgene, secgenne, secȝende, sæcgenne, segen, seggen, seggon, seggane, segcean, seȝȝen, seggen, sein, seine, seigen, seiȝen, seiȝn, seuggen, seyen, seyn, sien, sigen, sucgen, sugen, suggen
- ziggen, ziggene (Kent)
Verb
[edit]seien
- To say, that is:
- (interjection) Say!
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “seien, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old English sǣġan, from Proto-Germanic *saigijaną.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]seien
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “seien, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]seien m
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
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