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Central Franconian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn (“to be”) (with some parts from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) and *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h₁es- (“to be, exist”).
Alternative forms
Verb
senn (third-person singular present es, past tense wor, past participle jewäs)
- (Ripuarian) to be
Etymology 2
From Middle High German sëhen, from Old High German *sian, northern variant of sehan. Compare the same contracted form in Old Dutch sian.
Alternative forms
Verb
senn (third-person singular present süht or sitt, past tense sooch, past participle jesenn)
- (some dialects of Ripuarian) to see
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse senn, from the older form seðr (which appears e.g. in the skaldic poem Haustlǫng).
Cognate with Old Frisian sōn, Old Saxon sāno, Old English sōna (English soon), Old High German sān.
Pronunciation
Adverb
senn
- soon, presently, after a while
Sundlaugin opnar senn.- The swimming pool will open after a while.
Jesús kemur senn.- Jesus will come soon.
Derived terms
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sanþi (“soon, at once”), a denominal adverb derived from the root of *sinnaną (“to head for, long for”).
Adverb
senn
- soon, at once
Descendants
Further reading
- “senn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press