seisen
Middle English
/ˈsɛi̯zən/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To kidnap, abduct, or take captive.
- (transitive) To grasp or snatch.
- (ambitransitive) To seize, take, confiscate.
- (ambitransitive) To grant ownership; to entitle.
- (ambitransitive) To put, set.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French seisir (take possession of, invest, court, put in possession of) derived from Frankish *sakjan (sue, bring a legal charge against, litigate, accuse, bring legal action) derived from Proto-Germanic *sakjaną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sakjaną
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anti-seize English
- antiseize English
- disseize English
- foreseize English
- reseize English
- seise English
- seizable English
- seize English
- seizer English
- seizest English
- seizeth English
- seizing English
- seizor English
- seizure English
- unseize English
- sacire Latin
- saciō, sacīre Latin
- sacīre Latin
- saisir French
- *sakaną Proto-Germanic
- *sakjaną Proto-Germanic
- *sakōną Proto-Germanic
- seyse Middle English
- seisir Old French
- *sazjan Old High German
- sizar Ido
- *sakjan Frankish