seien

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Basque

Numeral

seien

genitive plural of sei

Catalan

Verb

seien

third-person plural imperfect indicative of seure

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪ̯ən/
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Hyphenation: sei‧en
Homophone: seihen

Verb

seien

first/third-person plural subjunctive I of sein
- 1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont:
  "Im Namen des Königs, und kraft besonderer von Seiner Majestät uns übertragenen Gewalt, alle seine Unterthanen, wes Standes sie seien, zugleich die Ritter des goldnen Vließes zu richten, erkennen wir—"
  "In the King's name, and invested by his Majesty with authority to judge all his subjects of whatever rank [they be], not excepting the knights of the Golden Fleece, we declare—"

Anagrams

eines, Eisen, niese, seine

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English seċġan (“to say”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną.

Alternative forms

saien, sain, saine, san, sæin, sæcgen, sæcgene, sæcgæn, sæcgan, sægen, sægenne, sæggen, sæggene, sayen, secgan, secgæn, secgon, secgen, secgene, secgenne, secȝende, sæcgenne, segen, seggen, seggon, seggane, segcean, seȝȝen, seggen, sein, seine, seigen, seiȝen, seiȝn, seuggen, seyen, seyn, sien, sigen, sucgen, sugen, suggen
ziggen, ziggene (Kent)

Verb

seien

To say, that is:
1. To declare, to state in speech (and, by extension, in writing)
2. To answer, to reply
3. To call, to name or define
4. To describe; to narrate
5. To mean, to intend to say
6. To teach or direct
7. (ecclesiastical) To recite, to sing
8. (law) To affirm, to assert
9. (law) To plead
(interjection) Say!

Derived terms

Descendants

English: say
Scots: say, sa
Yola: zey, zei

References

“seien, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English sǣġan, from Proto-Germanic *saigijaną.

Alternative forms

seȝen

Verb

seien

To fall down, to sink
To go to
(of time) To pass, to go by

Derived terms

References

“seien, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

seien m

definite singular of sei

Anagrams

eisen, isene, neies, neise, niese, -isene, seine, si-ene, sneie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seien

definite singular of sei

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