seisir

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Irish[edit]

Noun[edit]

seisir m

  1. inflection of seisear:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seisir sheisir
after an, tseisir
not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Medieval Latin sacire, present active infinitive of saciō. The Trésor de Langue Française Informatisé and Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch both link seisir back to Old High German *sazjan.[1][2]

Verb[edit]

seisir

  1. to grip (hold firmly)
  2. to seize (take by force)

Conjugation[edit]

This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants[edit]

  • English: seize
  • French: saisir

References[edit]

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (saisir)
  1. ^ Etymology and history of saisir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  2. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*sazjan”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 19