The story
- Early Medieval Latin · derived fromsacīre
- Old French · derived fromseisin
- Middle English · inherited fromseisin
- English todayseisin
From Middle English seisin, seysen, from Old French seisin, from the verb seisir, from Early Medieval Latin sacīre, from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (satjan) and Old English settan. More at seize, seise.
Words from the same roots
Early Medieval Latinsacīre all →
seizeseise
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.