sæ
Icelandic
Noun
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Ligurian
Verb
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- second-person singular present indicative of savéi; “[you] know (singular)”
Middle English
Noun
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- alternative form of see (“sea”)
Old English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
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- sea
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
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Metudes miltse, · þēah þe hē mōdċeariġ
ġeond lagulāde · longe sċeolde
hrēran mid hondum · hrīmċealde sǣ,
wadan wræclāstas. · Wyrd bið ful ārǣd.- A loner oft waits a grace for himself,
Creator's mercy, even if he is sorrowful,
through a sea-way he should for long
stir the frost-cold sea with hands,
travel paths of exile. Fate is well stalwart.
- A loner oft waits a grace for himself,
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- An. DCCCCXLV Hēr Ēadmund cing oferhergode eall Cumbraland, ⁊ hit lēt eall tō Malculme Sċotta cinge on þæt ġerād þæt hē wǣre his midwyrhta æġþer ġe on sǣ ġe on lande.
- Year 945 In this year King Edmund overran all of Cumberland, and let it all to King Malcom of Scotland, on the condition that he would be his cooperator on both sea and land.
Usage notes
This word, like several locations and abstract concepts, almost never uses the definite article.
Declension
- Feminine
Occasionally it occurs as masculine or neuter:
- Masculine
- Neuter
Derived terms
- Cwēnsǣ (“White Sea”)
- sǣbāt (“ship”)
- sǣċeosol (“gravel on the seashore”)
- sǣcocc (“cockle”)
- sǣcyning (“sea king”)
- sǣdēor (“sea creature”)
- sǣdraca (“sea dragon”)
- sǣfaru
- sǣfōr (“voyage”)
- sǣfugol
- sǣgenga
- sǣgrund (“seafloor”)
- sǣlāc
- sǣland (“maritime district”)
- sǣlīċ (“of the sea”)
- sǣlīþend (“sailor”)
- sǣmann (“sailor”)
- sǣmearh (“ship”)
- sǣmēþe
- sǣn (“marine”)
- sǣnæs (“cape”)
- sǣrima (“seashore”)
- sǣrinc (“seaman”)
- sǣsċiell (“seashell”)
- sǣsteorra
- sǣstrand
- sǣwæter (“seawater”)
- sǣweard (“coast guard”)
- sǣwielm (“billow”)
- sǣwiht (“sea creature”)
- sǣwudu (“boat, ship”)
- Wendelsǣ (“Mediterranean Sea”)
- wīdsǣ (“open sea”)
Descendants
See also
Category:ang:Water#SAEOld Norse
Noun
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Verb
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