siet

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See also: siết and sieť

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch ziet, third-person singular present of zien, whence Afrikaans sien.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sit/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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siet (present siet, present participle siende, past participle gesiet)

  1. (Cape Afrikaans) Alternative form of sien

Aragonese

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Aragonese cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : siet

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin septem.

Numeral

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siet

  1. seven

Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin septem.

Numeral

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siet

  1. seven

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *čijɜ- (to run) + -t (instantaneous verb-forming suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈʃijɛt]
  • Hyphenation: si‧et
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Verb

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siet

  1. (intransitive) to hurry
  2. (intransitive) to be fast (of clock or watch: ahead of the correct time)
    Antonym: késik

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

References

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  1. ^ Entry #111 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ siet in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • siet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

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Verb

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siet

  1. (archaic) third-person singular present subjunctive active of sum

Latvian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey- (or *sēy-), past sēju from an unchanged *sēy-, some dialects also have present seju from a short *sey-, otherwise present sienu from a no-stem with *ey > ie shift. Iterative saistīt (to link) via ablaut.[1]

Verb

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sìet (transitive, 1st conjugation, present sienu, sien, sien, past sēju)

  1. to bind

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “siet”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Middle Dutch

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Verb

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siet

  1. inflection of sien:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    3. plural imperative

Old Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sětь.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈsi̯ɛːt/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈsiːt/

Noun

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siet f

  1. net
    Pavúk tče své sieti.A spider weaves its webs.

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Czech: síť

Further reading

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Zhuang

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Etymology

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From Chinese (MC sjwet).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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siet (1957–1982 spelling siet)

  1. (dialectal) snow
    Synonym: nae