senn

See also: sénn, Sënn, and س

Central Franconian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zen/

Etymology 1

From Old High German sīn.

Alternative forms

• sein (Moselle Franconian)
• sinn (Kölsch)

Verb

senn (third-person singular present es, past tense wor, past participle jewäs)

1. (Ripuarian) to be

Etymology 2

From Old High German *sian, northern variant of sehan. Compare the same contracted form in Old Dutch sian.

Alternative forms

• sehn
• siehn, sinn, gesinn (Moselle Franconian)

Verb

senn (third-person singular present süht or sitt, past tense sooch, past participle jesenn)

1. (some dialects of Ripuarian) to see

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse senn, from the older form seðr (which appears e.g. in the skaldic poem Haustlöng). Cognate with Old Frisian sōn, Old Saxon sāno, Old English sōna (English soon), Old High German sān.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnː

Adverb

senn

1. soon, presently, after a while

   Sundlaugin opnar senn.

   The swimming pool will open after a while.

   Jesús kemur senn.

   Jesus will come soon.

Derived terms

• í senn

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

• seðr — older

Adverb

senn

1. soon, at once

Descendants

• Icelandic: senn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: senn
• ,
• Swedish: sänder

Further reading

• “senn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press