See also: siết and sieť

Afrikaans edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch ziet, third-person singular present of zien, whence Afrikaans sien.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /sit/
  • (file)

Verb edit

siet (present siet, present participle siende, past participle gesiet)

  1. (Cape Afrikaans) Alternative form of sien

Aragonese edit

Aragonese cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : siet

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin septem.

Numeral edit

siet

  1. seven

Friulian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin septem.

Numeral edit

siet

  1. seven

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *čijɜ- (to run) + -t (instantaneous verb-forming suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃijɛt]
  • Hyphenation: si‧et
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Verb edit

siet

  1. (intransitive) to hurry
  2. (intransitive) to be fast (of clock or watch: ahead of the correct time)
    Antonym: késik

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

(With verbal prefixes):

References edit

  1. ^ Entry #111 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ siet in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading edit

  • siet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin edit

Verb edit

siet

  1. (archaic) third-person singular present subjunctive active of sum

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey- (or *sēy-), past sēju from an unchanged *sēy-, some dialects also have present seju from a short *sey-, otherwise present sienu from a no-stem with *ey > ie shift. Iterative saistīt (to link) via ablaut.[1]

Verb edit

sìet (transitive, 1st conjugation, present sienu, sien, sien, past sēju)

  1. to bind

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “siet”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Middle Dutch edit

Verb edit

siet

  1. inflection of sien:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    3. plural imperative

Old Czech edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sětь.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈsi̯ɛːt/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈsiːt/

Noun edit

siet f

  1. net
    Pavúk tče své sieti.A spider weaves its webs.

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Czech: síť

Further reading edit

Zhuang edit

Etymology edit

From Chinese (MC sjwet).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

siet (1957–1982 spelling siet)

  1. (dialectal) snow
    Synonym: nae