säd
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sad"
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse sáð (“seed”), from Proto-Germanic *sēdiz.
Noun
säd c (uncountable)
- (uncountable) grain (grass food crops, generically, as a "substance")
- säden vajade på fälten
- the grain swayed in the fields
- (Commonwealth English) corn
- (uncountable) grain (harvested cereal grains)
- en säck säd
- a sack of grain
- mala säd till mjöl
- grind grain into flour
- (by extension, in compounds) seed (of a legume)
- (uncountable, somewhat literary outside compounds) semen, seed
- Synonyms: sädesvätska, sperma, (slang) sarre, (slang) sagge
- Onan spillde sin säd på marken
- Onan spilled his seed on the ground
- (dated, biblical) seed (descendants, progeny)
- Abrahams säd
- the seed of Abraham
Usage notes
- For referring to types of grain (cereals), see sädesslag.
- A grain in the countable sense is a (sädes)korn.
- The general word for seed is frö.
Declension
| Declension of säd | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | säd | säden | — | — |
| Genitive | säds | sädens | — | — |
References
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