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Translingual

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Etymology

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Most likely anabbreviation ofEnglishSemai.

Symbol

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sea

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forSemai.

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English

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The sea.

Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishsee, fromOld Englishsǣ, fromProto-West Germanic*saiwi(“body of water”), fromProto-Germanic*saiwiz, itself either:

Cognates

Cognate withYolazea,zee(“sea”),North FrisianSee,sia,siie(“sea; lake”),Saterland FrisianSee,Säi(“sea”),West Frisiansee(“sea”),Cimbrian,Mòchenosea(“lake”),Dutchzee(“sea”),German,German Low GermanSee(“sea”),LimburgishSië,zieë(“sea, ocean; lake”),LuxembourgishSéi(“lake”),West Flemishzji(“sea; seaside”),Danishsø(“sea; lake”),Faroesesjógvur(“sea; big wave”),Icelandicsjár,sjór,sær(“sea”),Norwegian Bokmål,Norwegian Nynorsksjø(“sea, ocean; lake”),Swedishsjö(“sea; lake; big wave”),Gothic𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃(saiws,“lake, sea; marshland”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sea (pluralseas)

  2. Alargebody ofsalt water.
    Synonym:(UK, nautical and navy)ogin
    • 1780,William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, inTwenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] ‎[4], 4th edition, page252:
      God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in theſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
    1. Theocean; thecontinuous body of salt water covering amajority of theEarth'ssurface.
      • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Leviticus 11:9,signature [K5], recto, column 2:
        These ſhal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatſoeuer hath finnes and ſcales in the waters, in theſeas, and in the riuers, them ſhall ye eate.
      • 1719, Nicholas Rowe, “Book V”, inLucan's Pharsalia: Translated into English Verse, Dublin: James Carson,page183:
        At length the universal Wreck appear'd,/ To Cæsar's self, ev'n worthy to be fear'd./ Why all these Pains, this Toil of Fate (he cries)/ This Labour of theSeas, and Earth, and Skies?/ All Nature, and the Gods at once alarm'd,/ Against my little Boat and me are arm'd.
      • 1833, William Hazlitt, “Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy”, inGreenbank's Periodical Library, volume I, chapter 1,page173:
        There is something in being near thesea, like the confines of eternity. It is a new element, a pure abstraction. The mind loves to hover on that which is endless, and forever the same. People wonder at a steam-boat, the invention of man, managed by man, that makes its liquid path like an iron railway through thesea—I wonder at thesea itself, that vast Leviathan, rolled round the earth, smiling in its sleep, waked into fury, fathomless, boundless, a huge world of water-drops.—Whence is it, whither goes it, is it of eternity, or of nothing?
      • 1922 March, J. S. Fletcher, “The Mystery of Ravensdene Court”, inEverybody's Magazine, volume XLVI, number 3,page162:
        As we stood there watching, the long yellow light on the eastern horizon suddenly changed in color—first to a roseate flush, then to a warm crimson; the scenes round us, sky,sea, and land, brightened as if by magic.
    2. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
      The MediterraneanSea, the CaribbeanSea, theSea of Crete, etc.
  3. Alake, especially if large or ifsalty orbrackish.
    The CaspianSea, theSea of Galilee, the SaltonSea, etc.
  4. A singlewave;billow.
    • 1792,William Bligh, chapter II, inA Voyage to the South Sea, […] in His Majesty’s ShipThe Bounty, […], London: […] George Nicol, […],→OCLC,page14:
      Oneſea broke away the ſpare yards and ſpars out of the ſtarboard main chains. Another heavyſea broke into the ſhip and ſtove all the boats. Several caſks of beer, that had been laſhed upon deck, were broke looſe and waſhed overboard, and it was not without great difficulty and riſk that we were able to ſecure the boats from being waſhed away entirely.
    • 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e.,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Mackerel Trolling”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl.,Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London:Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington,→OCLC,page187:
      'If they buy three cords of birch logs,' said the witch, 'but they must be exact measure—and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the firstsea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the secondsea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the thirdsea comes, then it's all over with us.'
  5. Theswell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
    • 1913,Edgar Rice Burroughs,The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published1963, page150:
      “Where can they be?” he cried. “They cannot have gone down, for there has been nosea, and they were afloat after the yacht sank—I saw them all.”
    • 1952, Ernest Hemingway,The Old Man and the Sea:
      There was a smallsea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.
    • 2020 June 8, National Weather Service Boston, 2:38 PM EDT marine forecast
      High pressure will maintain light winds and flatseas through Tue night. ... Potential for briefly choppy 3 ftseas near South Coast...
  6. (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
    Seaman,sea gauge,sea monster,sea horse,sea level,seaworthy,seaport,seaboard, etc.
  7. (figurative) Anything resembling thevastness orturbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
    • c.1599–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare,The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] forN[icholas] L[ing] […], published1604,→OCLC, [Act III, scene i],signature G2, recto:
      To be, or not to be, that is the queſtion, / Whether tis nobler in the minde to ſuffer / The ſlings and arrowes of outragious fortune, / Or to take Armes againſt aſea of troubles, / And by oppoſing, end them, to die to ſleepe / No more, and by a ſleepe, to ſay we end / The hart-ake, and the thouſand naturall ſhocks / That fleſh is heire to;[…]
    • 1980,Patria Crone,Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN:
      Secondly, in terms of geopolitics Central Asia was a hugesea of barbarians set in the midst of interlocking continents. Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.
    • 1980,AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page102:
      The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancingsea of daffodils.
    • 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, inNew York Times‎[5]:
      In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into asea of fire.
  8. (physics) Aconstantflux ofgluons splitting intoquarks, whichannihilate to produce further gluons.
  9. (planetology) A large,darkplain ofrock; amare.
    The Apollo 11 mission landed in theSea of Tranquility.
  10. (planetology) A very large lake ofliquidhydrocarbon.

Derived terms

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Proper nouns
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Names of seas
Places, other than actual seas, with "sea" in their title
Common nouns
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Terms derived fromsea (species)
Terms derived fromsea (other)

Translations

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body of water

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References

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  1. ^Vladimir Orel (2003), “*saiwiz”, inA Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[1], Leiden, Boston:Brill,→ISBN,page314
  2. ^Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*saiwi-”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;11)‎[2], Leiden, Boston:Brill,→ISBN,page423
  3. ^Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*sīhwan-”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;11)‎[3], Leiden, Boston:Brill,→ISBN,pages435–436

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Cimbrian

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Etymology

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FromMiddle High Germansē, fromOld High Germansēo, fromProto-West Germanic*saiwi, fromProto-Germanic*saiwiz(“sea, ocean”). Cognate withGermanSee,Englishsea.

Noun

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sea m

  1. (Luserna)lake

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Estonian

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Noun

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sea

  1. genitivesingular ofsiga

Garo

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Verb

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sea

  1. towrite

Derived terms

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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is +ea (literally, "itis")

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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sea

  1. yes(to copula questions)
  2. right,well(topic introducer)

Usage notes

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This is a contraction of an affirmative response to a question, and is found in response to questions where the key verb isis or a present tense form thereof:

Q: An féidir leat cuidiú liom? — "Can you help me?" (literally, "Possible for you to help me?")
A:Sea. — "Yes."

Informally it may also be found as the answer to a question with a main verb, though this is considered incorrect. The standard response to such a question is to repeat the verb:

Q: Ar chuala tú mé? — "Did you hear me?"
A: Chuala. — "Yes" (literally, "Heard")or informallySea.

Antonyms

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Middle English

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Noun

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sea

  1. (Early Middle English or Late Middle English)alternative form ofsee(“sea”)

Mòcheno

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Etymology

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FromMiddle High Germansē, fromOld High Germansēo, fromProto-West Germanic*saiwi, fromProto-Germanic*saiwiz(“sea, ocean”). Cognate withGermanSee,Englishsea.

Noun

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sea m

  1. lake

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Old Irish

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Determiner

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sea

  1. alternative spelling ofso

Old Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Norseséa (West Norsesjá), fromProto-Germanic*sehwaną.

Verb

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sēa

  1. tosee

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofsēa (strong)
presentpast
infinitivesēa—
participlesēandi,sēandesēþer
active voiceindicativesubjunctiveimperativeindicativesubjunctive
iæksērsē—sāsāghi,sāghe
þūsērsēsēsātsāghi,sāghe
hansērsē—sāsāghi,sāghe
vīrsēum,sēomsēum,sēomsēum,sēomsāghum,sāghomsāghum,sāghom
īrsēnsēnsēnsāghinsāghin
þērsēasēn—sāghu,sāghosāghin
mediopassive voiceindicativesubjunctiveimperativeindicativesubjunctive
iæksēssēs—sāssāghis,sāghes
þūsēssēs—sātssāghis,sāghes
hansēssēs—sāssāghis,sāghes
vīrsēums,-omssēums,sēoms—sāghums,sāghomssāghums,sāghoms
īrsēnssēns—sāghinssāghins
þērsēassēns—sāghus,sāghossāghins

Descendants

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Plautdietsch

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Adverb

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sea

  1. very,intensely

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsea/[ˈse.a]
  • Rhymes:-ea
  • Syllabification:se‧a

Verb

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sea

  1. inflection ofser:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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Tongan

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishchair.

Noun

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sea

  1. chair

Wolio

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Etymology

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FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*səjəm.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sea

  1. ant

References

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  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987),Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris
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