sigebeam
Old English
noun
Definitions
- (poetic) tree of victory, Christian cross
Etymology
Compound from Old English siġe (victory, triumph, success) + Old English bēam (tree, wood, beam, column, splint, pillar, post, gallows, rafter, cross, stock, piece of wood).
Origin
Old English
bēam
Gloss
tree, wood, beam, column, splint, pillar, post, gallows, rafter, cross, stock, piece of wood
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
木, 樹
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beam tree English
- *baumaz Proto-Germanic
- *segaz Proto-Germanic
- beamweg Old English
- begbeam Old English
- bēam Old English
- cederbeam Old English
- cwicbeam Old English
- elebeam Old English
- gleobeam Old English
- laurbeam Old English
- sigegefeoht Old English
- sigehreþig Old English
- sigelic Old English
- sigetacen Old English
- siġe Old English
- sunnebeam Old English
- beem Middle English
- siȝe Middle English