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Czech
Prefix
se-
- a prefix, sometimes used instead of s- in front of a consonant
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- s(e)- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Hungarian
Etymology
See se.
Pronunciation
Prefix
se-
- none, no (person/thing/way/kind/place/size/amount/etc.)
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay se-, from Classical Malay se-, from se, shortened form of esa, from Proto-Malayic *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *əsa.
Pronunciation
Prefix
sê-
- one
selembar- a sheet / one sheet
seperempat- one fourth (a quarter)
- adjectival equative: same, sharing , having the same
- se- + tinggi (“height”) → setinggi (“as tall as”)
- all, the whole
- se- + dunia (“world”) → sedunia (“whole world”)
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Latin
Etymology 1
*s(w)ēd, the ablative singular of Proto-Indo-European *s(w)é (“self”) lengthened under phrasal stress. Note there's no hard evidence for a /w/ in Italic, which is likely taken from the possessive pronoun in other branches. The original meaning was "per se, by itself", whence "however, but" as conjunction and "without, away" as preposition, parallel to English only (“but”).
Doublet of sē as well as sed (q.v.), where the vowel shortened proclitically (or never lengthened). Cf. the semantically close vē-, which might also be a doublet with loss of /s/. Further related to suus (“one's own”).
Alternative forms
Prefix
sē-
- apart-, aside-, away-
- claudō (“to close, shut, confine”) → sēclūdō (“to shut off”)
- dūcō (“to lead”) → sēdūcō (“to lead away or astray, separate from”)
- (in a privative sense) without, lacking, wanting, -less
- cūra (“care, worry”) → sēcūrus (“free from care, easy; careless”)
- cor (“heart as the seat of vitality”) → socors (“lacking in vitality or alertness, sluggish, inactive, dull”)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From sex before voiced consonants with voicing assimilation (*segz-) followed by regular elision with compensatory lenthening, for which cf. āla, vēlum.
Prefix
sē-
- six- as a bound morpheme
- sex + decem (“ten”) → sēdecim (“sixteen”)
- sex → sēnī (“six each”)
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sē; sē-, se-, sō-, so-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 549
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
Further reading
Malay
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From se, shortened form of esa, from Proto-Malayic *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *əsa.
Pronunciation
Prefix
se- (Jawi spelling س-)
- one
- used to form the comparative of adjectives
- sebesar
- as big as
- sepanjang
- as long as
- secantik
- as beautiful as
Synonyms
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Etymology 2
Clipping of seluruh.
Prefix
se- (Jawi spelling س-)
- Used on nouns to indicate that the noun referred to is in its entirety.
Northern Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-.
Prefix
se-
- Class 7 noun prefix.
Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-.
Prefix
se-
- Class 7 noun prefix.
Tswana
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-.
Prefix
se-
- Class 7 noun prefix.
Zulu
Etymology
Coalescence of sa- with the Proto-Bantu copula *-dɪ̀.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /sêː/
Prefix
sê-
- Form of sa- used in copulative constructions.