seed

seed · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*seh₁-“to sow, throw”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*sēdą
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*sād
4. Old English · inherited fromsēd
5. Middle English · inherited fromseed
6. English todayseed

] From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”). Cognates Cognate with Yola zeade (“seed”), North Frisian sead, seed, siad, Siid, sädj, säid (“seed”), Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Limburgish zaod (“seed”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sæd (“seed”), Faroese and Icelandic sáð (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Gothic *𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (*sēþs, “seed”); also Latin serō (“to sow, plant”), Latvian sēt (“to sow”), Lithuanian sėti (“to sow”), Bulgarian се́я (séja, “to sow, plant”), Czech sít (“to sow”), Macedonian сее (see, “to sow”), Polish siać (“to sow”), Russian се́ять (séjatʹ, “to sow”), Serbo-Croatian се̏јати, sȅjati, си̏јати, sȉjati (“to sow”), Slovak siať (“to sow”), Slovene sejáti (“to sow”), Ukrainian сі́яти (síjaty, “to sow”). More at sow.

seed · verb²

1. Proto-Indo-European*sekʷ-
2. Proto-Germanic*sehwaną
3. Proto-West Germanic*sehwan
4. Old Englishsēon
5. Middle Englishseen
6. Englishsee
7. English todayseed

From see + -d (“past tense suffix; variant of -ed”).

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