senn
Central Franconian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zen/
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
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.
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
- Rhymes: -ɛnː
Adverb
senn
Derived terms
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- seðr — older
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sanþi (“soon, at once”), a denominal adverb derived from the root of *sinnaną (“to head for, long for”).
Further reading
- “senn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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