Etymology

farsee

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Today it means: To see at or from a distance. Full definition →

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The story

From far + see. Compare Dutch verziend (“farseeing, long-sighted”), German fernsehen (“to look from afar, watch television”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.