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seisir

seisir

Irish

Noun

seisir m

  1. genitive singular of seisear

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seisir sheisir
after an, tseisir 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old French

Etymology

Medieval Latin sacire, present active infinitive of saciō. The Trésor de Langue Française Informatisé and Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch both link seisir back to Old High German *sazjan[1][2].

Verb

seisir

  1. to grip (hold firmly)
  2. to seize (take by force)

Descendants

References

  • (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (saisir)
  1. ↑ “saisir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
  2. ↑ (fr)(de) *sazjan in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)

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