seo

See also: Seo, SEO, seó, séo, and sẹo

Galician

Alternative forms

• sen (Northeastern Galician)
• seio (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sẽo, from Latin sinus. Cognate with Portuguese seio and Spanish seno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseo/ [ˈs̺e.ʊ]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Hyphenation: se‧o

Noun

seo m (plural seos)

1. (anatomy, also figuratively) bosom
   • 1908, Xesús Rodríguez López, Gallegadas, page 135:

     Amáñanse poñéndose moitos refaixos e cruzan os panos por diante o seo; todo pra aparentar máis gordas e rebustas: en vez de poñer as carnes ó aire, tápa-nas percurando aparecer que elas teñen moitas, aínda que falten pola casa. Dempois andan azoroñando a carón dos mozos i ós que queren pescar físga-nos polo rabiño do ollo. Si eles se fan de rogar entón carexan as mozas astra que miran pra elas

     They dress up with many underskirts and they cross the clothes before the bosom; all that so they seem fatter and more robust: instead of showing the flesh they cover it attempting to look as if they have much, even if it lacks at home. After this they wander around the boys, and the ones they want to fish, they catch them by the corner of the eye. If they play hard to get, then they speak together loudly till the boys look at them

2. (anatomy) breast

   Synonym: peito

3. (anatomy) sinus
4. (anatomy) womb
5. (geography) lowland

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “seo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “seo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “seo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “seo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Irish

Alternative forms

• so (Munster)
• seod, seobh (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Old Irish so.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ/

Determiner

seo

1. this (used with the definite article)

   an abhainn seo ― this river

Related terms

• sin, siúd

Pronoun

seo

1. this

   Seo mo theach. ― This is my house.

Related terms

• sin, siúd

Adverb

seo

1. here (implies motion)

   Cuir é seo. ― Put it here.

   Seo isteach leat. ― In you come.

Derived terms

• seo duit

See also

• anseo

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Noun

sēo m

1. sea

Declension

Declension of sēo (masculine wa-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	sēo	sēwa
accusative	sēo	sēwa
genitive	sēwes	sēwo
dative	sēwe	sēwon

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: sêe f or m
  • Dutch: zee f
    • Afrikaans: see
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: sei
    • Javindo: see
    • Negerhollands: see
    • → Saramaccan: zé
    • → Sranan Tongo: se
  • Limburgish: zieë f
  • West Flemish: zji m or f, zêe

Further reading

• “sēo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se͜oː/

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• sio, ðiu, ðio, ðyu, ðy — Northumbrian
• siu, sio, sie — Mercian
• sia, syo, þeo

Article

sēo f

1. nominative feminine singular of se: the

   sēo cwēn ― the queen

Determiner

sēo f

1. nominative feminine singular of sē: that (agreeing with feminine nouns)

Pronoun

sēo f

1. nominative feminine singular of sē: she, that one

Descendants

• Middle English: seo, si, se, zi

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *sehwā, from Proto-Germanic *sehwǭ (“pupil”). Akin to Old High German seha (“pupil”).

Alternative forms

• sīo

Noun

sēo f or m

1. pupil (of the eye)
2. apple of the eye

Declension

Feminine

Weak feminine (n-stem):

	singular	plural
nominative	sēo	sēon
accusative	sēon	sēon
genitive	sēon	sēona
dative	sēon	sēom, sēoum

Masculine

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	sēo	sēon
accusative	sēon	sēon
genitive	sēon	sēona
dative	sēon	sēom, sēoum

Descendants

• Middle English: seo

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, whence also Old Dutch and Old Saxon sēo, Old English sæ, Old Norse sær, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 (saiws).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̠eːo/

Noun

sēo m

1. sea

Derived terms

• Wentilsēo (“the Mediterranean sea”, literally “the Vandal-sea”)
• sēfogal (“seabird”)
• sēolīdante (“sea-travellers; sailors”)

Descendants

• Middle High German: sē m (rarely f)
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: sea

    Mòcheno: sea

  • German: See m (“lake”), See f (“sea”) (latter in part from Low German)
  • Luxembourgish: Séi

References

• Joseph Wright, 'An Old High German Primer, Second Edition'

Old Irish

Determiner

seo

1. Alternative form of so

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• sēu

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, whence also Old Dutch sēo, Old English sǣ, Old Frisian sē, Old High German sēo, Old Norse sær.

Noun

sēo m

1. sea

Declension

sēo (masculine wa-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	sēo	sēwos
accusative	sēo	sēwos
genitive	sēwes	sēwō
dative	sēwe	sēwum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: sê
  • German Low German: See, Sei
  • Plautdietsch: See

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish [Term?], from Old Irish so. Cognates include Irish seo and Manx shoh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ(h)/

Pronoun

seo

1. this

   Seo mo dhachaigh. ― This is my home.

Usage notes

• With the definite article, used as a determiner:

  an abhainn seo ― this river (literally, “the river this”)

Derived terms

• an seo
• iad seo
• mar seo
• seo chaidh
• thuige seo

Adverb

seo

1. Short for an seo (“here”).

   Cuir e seo. ― Put it here

See also

Scottish Gaelic demonstratives

	pronoun	adverb
proximal	seo	an seo
medial	sin	an sin
distal	siud	an siud

References

• Colin Mark (2003) “seo”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 511

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan seu, from Latin sedes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseo/ [ˈse.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: se‧o

Noun

seo f (plural seos)

1. (Aragon, Catalonia) cathedral

Further reading

• “seo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sɛw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂɛw˧˧] ~ [sɛw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂɛw˧˧] ~ [sɛw˧˧]

Adjective

seo • (𦠶)

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Verb

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