Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sehwan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sehwaną.

Verb

*sehwan

to see

Inflection

Strong class 5
Infinitive	*sehwan
1st sg. past	*sahw
3rd pl. past	*sāgun
Past ptcple	*sewan
Infinitive	*sehwan
Genitive infin.	*sehwannjas
Dative infin.	*sehwannjē
Instrum. infin.	*sehwannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*sehu	*sahw
2nd singular	*sihwiʀi	*sāwī
3rd singular	*sihwidi	*sahw
1st plural	*sehum	*sāgum
2nd plural	*sihwid	*sāgud
3rd plural	*sehwand	*sāgun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*sehwē	*sāwī
2nd singular	*sehwēs	*sāwī
3rd singular	*sehwē	*sāwī
1st plural	*sehwēm	*sāwīm
2nd plural	*sehwēþ	*sāwīd
3rd plural	*sehwēn	*sāwīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*sihw
Plural	*sihwid
	Present	Past
Participle	*sehwandī	*sewan

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: sēon
- Middle English: seen, sein, sien; seon, son, suen; zi
  - English: see
  - Scots: se, sie, see
  - Yola: zee, zey, zie, ze, sau
Old Frisian: siā
- Saterland Frisian: sjo
- West Frisian: sjen
Old Saxon: sehan
- Middle Low German: sēn
  - Low German: sehn
Old Dutch: sian
- Middle Dutch: sien
  - Dutch: zien
    - Afrikaans: sien
    - Javindo: sien, siet
    - Jersey Dutch: zîn, zîne
  - Limburgish: zeen
Old High German: sehan
- Middle High German: sëhen; sēn (chiefly East Central); sien (West Central)
  - Central Franconian: sehn, senn, siehn, sinn
    Hunsrik: sihn
  - German: sehen
  - Mòcheno: sechen
  - Pennsylvania German: sehne
  - Vilamovian: zaon
  - Yiddish: זען (zen)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 178: “PWGmc *sehwan”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 178: “PWGmc *sehwan”

Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sehwan

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