sethen
Middle English
/ˈseːðən/
verb
Definitions
- To boil or seethe; to heat a fluid:
- To cook or heat especially used of processing ceramics or ingredients
- To break down or process one's consumed food using stomach acid; to digest.
- (rare) To make pure; to revitalise.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sēoþan (seethe, boil, brood, subject to great pain, prepare food for the mind, disturb, afflict, subject the mind with occupations, subject to a fiery ordeal, be troubled in mind, cook in a liquid, try as with fire, afflict grievously) inherited from Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (seethe, boil).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*seuþaną
Gloss
seethe, boil
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- forseethe English
- seethe English
- seether English
- seetheth English
- seething English
- sieden German
- zieden Dutch, Flemish
- *h₂sewt- Proto-Indo-European
- *seuþaną Proto-Germanic
- *sudanaz Proto-Germanic
- forseoþan Old English
- seoþan Old English
- sēoþan Old English
- seeth Middle English
- seeþ Middle English
- sether Middle English
- sethyng Middle English
- sjóða Old Norse
- sjúða Old Norse
- sieden Middle Dutch
- siodan Old High German
- sieden Middle High German
- *siethan Old Dutch
- seethin Scots
- siātha Old Frisian