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See (plural Sees)

1. Alternative letter-case form of see.

See (plural Sees)

1. A surname.
   1. An English surname.
   2. A surname from German.
   3. A surname from Hokkien.

• -ees, -ese, ESE, Ese, ees, ese

Middle High German sē, from Old High German sē. Cognate with German See.

• IPA^(key): /seː/

See m (plural Seee, diminutive Seeli)

1. lake

Alternative forms.

See m

1. (Uri) alternative form of Se

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 67.

From Middle High German sê, from Old High German sē, sēo m (“sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi m (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz m (“sea”). Compare Low German See (“sea, lake”), Dutch zee f (“sea”), English sea, Danish sø c (“sea, lake”).

• IPA^(key): /zeː/ (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /seː/ (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
• Rhymes: -eː
• Homophone: seh

See m (mixed, genitive Sees, plural Seen)

1. lake

   Dieser See ist sehr klein.

   This lake is very small.

   • "Görlitzer Park", Berliner Zeitung, November 11, 2013.

     Auf 14 Hektar gibt es unter anderem einen Kinderbauernhof, mehrere Sport-, Spiel- und Bolzplätze, zwei Aussichtsberge und einen kleinen See.

     There are, among other things, a petting zoo, multiple sporting facilities, playing grounds and soccer fields, two overlooks and a small lake on 14 hectares.

See f (genitive See, plural Seen)

1. (uncountable, singular only) sea, ocean

   Synonyms: Meer, Ozean

   Mein Großvater ist als Fischer zur See gefahren.

   My grandfather went to sea as a fisherman.

   • 2016 January 26, Giorgos Christides, "Griechenland empört über Kritik aus Österreich: "Sollen wir die Flüchtlingsboote vielleicht versenken?"", Der Spiegel:

     Wenn man ein Boot auf See sichte, gebe es nur eine Handlungsoption.

     When one spots a boat at sea, there would only be one way to act.

2. (nautical) sea, sea condition, swell

   Die See ist heute sehr ruhig.

   The sea is very calm today.

• (sea, ocean): This sense is normal in compounds and fixed expressions (as above). Otherwise, See is elevated and usually replaced by the synonym Meer.
• (swell): This sense is very common in nautical parlance but also familiar to ordinary people.

See n (proper noun, genitive Sees or (optionally with an article) See)

1. a municipality of Tyrol, Austria

• “See” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “See” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “See” in Duden online
• “See” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• See on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “See”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː/
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification: See

See m (plural See)

1. lake

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “See”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

From Middle Low German sê, from Old Saxon sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz. Compare standard German See, Dutch zee, English sea, Swedish sjö.

See m (plural Seen) (German Low German)

1. a lake

See f (plural Seen) (German Low German)

1. sea, ocean

   Mien Grootvader föhr as Fischer to de See.

   My grandfather went to sea as a fisherman.

2. sea, sea condition, swell

   De See is vundaag bannig rohig.

   The sea is very calm today.

• (sea, ocean): Contrary to its German counterpart, See in Low German is the most common word for sea and is never replaced by Meer as it is in standard German.
• (swell): This sense is very common in nautical parlance but also familiar to ordinary people.

• Meer
• Ozean

From Old High German saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagō. Cognate with German Säge, English saw, Dutch zaag, Icelandic sög, Danish sav.

• IPA^(key): /zeː/
  • Rhymes: -eː

See f (plural Seeën)

1. saw

• seeën

• sia (Föhr-Amrum)
• siie (Mooring)

From Old Frisian sē, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi.

See f or m (plural Seen) (Sylt)

1. sea
2. lake

• Since Sylt Frisian has merged masculine and feminine genders it cannot use them to distinguish between both senses, except possibly with personal and possessive pronouns. For the German-influenced distinction in other dialects compare sia.

From Old High German sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz. Compare German See, Dutch zee, English sea, Swedish sjö.

See m

1. lake

See n

1. sea, ocean

• Säi

From Old Frisian sē, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi. Cognates include German See and West Frisian see.

• IPA^(key): /seː/
• Hyphenation: See
• Rhymes: -eː

See f (plural Seeë)

1. sea

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “See”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Borrowed from English See, from Hokkien 施 (Si) or 薛 (Sih). Doublet of Sy, Siy, Sze, and Shi.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /si/ [sɪ]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: See

See (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

• ese