Etymology

seeing

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Today it means: Having vision; not blind. Full definition →

English see ← Middle English seen ← Old English sēon
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seeing · verb, adjective, noun1

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

From see + -ing.

seeing · conjunction2

Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

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