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Old English · noun

seo

Normalised sēo

Part of speech
noun, masculine / feminine
Declension
weak n-stem
IPA
/se͜oː/
Syllables
se͜oː (1 syllable)
Modern English
pupilapple of the eyeeye

seo1 · article · inflected form

Senses

  1. nominative feminine singular of se: the

    sēo cwēn

    the queen

  2. Inflected form of se

seo2 · determiner · inflected form

Senses

  1. nominative feminine singular of sē: that (agreeing with feminine nouns)

  2. Inflected form of sē

seo3 · noun · masculine/feminine

Senses

  1. pupil (of the eye)

  2. apple of the eye

Declension · weak n-stem

Declension of seo
SingularPlural
Nominative sēosēon
Accusative sēonsēon
Genitive sēonsēona
Dative sēonsēomsēoum

seo4 · pronoun · inflected form

Senses

  1. nominative feminine singular of sē: she, that one

  2. Inflected form of sē

All forms (5)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sehwā, from Proto-Germanic *sehwǭ (“pupil”). Akin to Old High German seha (“pupil”).

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