Etymology

Most likely an abbreviation of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#SEA SemaiCategory:Translingual abbreviations#SEA.

Symbol

seaCategory:Translingual lemmas#SEACategory:Translingual symbols#SEACategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#SEACategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3Category:ISO 639-3 language code for Semai.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Semai terms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SEACategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SEA see, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SEACategory:English terms derived from Old English#SEA sǣ, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SEACategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SEA *saiwi (“body of water”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SEACategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SEA *saiwiz, itself either:

• Derived from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEA *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”).^[1] Related to Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), and Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”). More at sore.
• Derived from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SEA *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”),^[2] from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEA *seykʷ-.^[3]

Pronunciation

• enPR: sē, IPA^(key): /siː/Category:English 1-syllable words#SEACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SEA

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (General American):

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• (obsolete) enPR: sā, IPA^(key): /seɪ/Category:English 1-syllable words#SEACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SEA
• Homophones: C, cee, seeCategory:English terms with homophones#SEA
• Rhymes: -iːCategory:Rhymes:English/iː#SEACategory:Rhymes:English/iː/1 syllable#SEA

Noun

sea (plural seas)Category:English lemmas#SEACategory:English nouns#SEACategory:English countable nouns#SEACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

2. A large body of salt water.

   Synonyms: (UK, nautical and navy) ogin; briny (literary, U.K.)

   • 1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] ‎, 4th edition, page 252:

     God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

   1. The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 11:9, signature [K5], recto, column 2:

        These ſhal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatſoeuer hath finnes and ſcales in the waters, in the ſeas, and in the riuers, them ſhall ye eate.

        Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

      • 1719, Nicholas Rowe, “Book V”, in Lucan's Pharsalia: Translated into English Verse, Dublin: James Carson, page 183:

        At length the universal Wreck appear'd,/ To Cæsar's self, ev'n worthy to be fear'd./ Why all these Pains, this Toil of Fate (he cries)/ This Labour of the Seas, and Earth, and Skies?/ All Nature, and the Gods at once alarm'd,/ Against my little Boat and me are arm'd.

        Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

      • 1833, William Hazlitt, “Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy”, in Greenbank's Periodical Library, volume I, chapter 1, page 173:

        There is something in being near the sea, like the confines of eternity. It is a new element, a pure abstraction. The mind loves to hover on that which is endless, and forever the same. People wonder at a steam-boat, the invention of man, managed by man, that makes its liquid path like an iron railway through the sea—I wonder at the sea itself, that vast Leviathan, rolled round the earth, smiling in its sleep, waked into fury, fathomless, boundless, a huge world of water-drops.—Whence is it, whither goes it, is it of eternity, or of nothing?

        Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

      • 1922 March, J. S. Fletcher, “The Mystery of Ravensdene Court”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume XLVI, number 3, page 162:

        As we stood there watching, the long yellow light on the eastern horizon suddenly changed in color—first to a roseate flush, then to a warm crimson; the scenes round us, sky, sea, and land, brightened as if by magic.

        Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

   2. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.

      The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.

      Category:English terms with usage examples#SEA

3. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

   The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.Category:English terms with usage examples#SEA

4. A single wave; billow.
   • 1792, William Bligh, chapter II, in A Voyage to the South Sea, […] in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty, […], London: […] George Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 14:

     One ſea broke away the ſpare yards and ſpars out of the ſtarboard main chains. Another heavy ſea broke into the ſhip and ſtove all the boats. Several caſks of beer, that had been laſhed upon deck, were broke looſe and waſhed overboard, and it was not without great difficulty and riſk that we were able to ſecure the boats from being waſhed away entirely.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

   • 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Mackerel Trolling”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 187:

     'If they buy three cords of birch logs,' said the witch, 'but they must be exact measure—and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the second sea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the third sea comes, then it's all over with us.'

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

5. The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 150:

     “Where can they be?” he cried. “They cannot have gone down, for there has been no sea, and they were afloat after the yacht sank—I saw them all.”

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

   • 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea:

     There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

   • 2020 June 8, National Weather Service Boston, 2:38 PM EDT marine forecast

     High pressure will maintain light winds and flat seas through Tue night. ... Potential for briefly choppy 3 ft seas near South Coast...

6. (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.

   Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.Category:English terms with usage examples#SEA

7. (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature G2, recto:

     To be, or not to be, that is the queſtion, / Whether tis nobler in the minde to ſuffer / The ſlings and arrowes of outragious fortune, / Or to take Armes againſt a ſea of troubles, / And by oppoſing, end them, to die to ſleepe / No more, and by a ſleepe, to ſay we end / The hart-ake, and the thouſand naturall ſhocks / That fleſh is heire to; […]

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

   • 1980, Patria Crone, Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     Secondly, in terms of geopolitics Central Asia was a huge sea of barbarians set in the midst of interlocking continents. Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102:

     The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

   • 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎:

     In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SEA

8. (physicsCategory:en:Physics#SEA) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
9. (planetologyCategory:en:Planetology#SEA) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

   The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.Category:English terms with usage examples#SEA

10. (planetologyCategory:en:Planetology#SEA) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

See also

• Sea-Tac

References

Further reading

• sea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “sea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sea”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• -ase, AES, ASE, EAS, EAs, ESA, Esa, SAE, a**es, aes, ase, eas, esa

Etymology

From Middle High GermanCategory:Cimbrian terms inherited from Middle High German#SEACategory:Cimbrian terms derived from Middle High German#SEA sē, from Old High GermanCategory:Cimbrian terms inherited from Old High German#SEACategory:Cimbrian terms derived from Old High German#SEA sēo, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Cimbrian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SEACategory:Cimbrian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SEA *saiwi, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Cimbrian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SEACategory:Cimbrian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SEA *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”). Cognate with German See, English sea.

Noun

sea mCategory:Cimbrian lemmas#SEACategory:Cimbrian nouns#SEACategory:Cimbrian entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Cimbrian masculine nouns#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. (LusernaCategory:Luserna Cimbrian#SEA) lake

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Noun

seaCategory:Estonian non-lemma forms#SEACategory:Estonian noun forms#SEACategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. genitive singular of siga

Verb

seaCategory:Garo lemmas#SEACategory:Garo verbs#SEACategory:Garo entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. to write

Alternative forms

• seadh (superseded)

Etymology

is + ea (literally, "it is")

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa/Category:Irish terms with IPA pronunciation#SEA

Adverb

seaCategory:Irish lemmas#SEACategory:Irish adverbs#SEACategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. yes (to copula questions)
2. right, well (topic introducer)

Noun

seaCategory:Middle English alternative forms#SEACategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. (Early Middle EnglishCategory:Early Middle English#SEA or Late Middle EnglishCategory:Late Middle English#SEA) alternative form of see (“sea”)

Etymology

From Middle High GermanCategory:Mòcheno terms inherited from Middle High German#SEACategory:Mòcheno terms derived from Middle High German#SEA sē, from Old High GermanCategory:Mòcheno terms inherited from Old High German#SEACategory:Mòcheno terms derived from Old High German#SEA sēo, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Mòcheno terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SEACategory:Mòcheno terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SEA *saiwi, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Mòcheno terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SEACategory:Mòcheno terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SEA *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”). Cognate with German See, English sea.

Noun

sea mCategory:Mòcheno lemmas#SEACategory:Mòcheno nouns#SEACategory:Mòcheno entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Mòcheno masculine nouns#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. lake

References

• “sea” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Determiner

seaCategory:Old Irish lemmas#SEACategory:Old Irish determiners#SEACategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. alternative spelling of so

Alternative forms

• sīa

Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Old Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse#SEACategory:Old Swedish terms derived from Old Norse#SEA séa (West Norse sjá), from Proto-GermanicCategory:Old Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SEACategory:Old Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SEA *sehwaną.

Verb

sēaCategory:Old Swedish lemmas#SEACategory:Old Swedish verbs#SEACategory:Old Swedish entries with incorrect language header#SEACategory:Pages with entries#SEACategory:Pages with 14 entries#SEA

1. to see