sy
Danish
/syː/
verb
Definitions
- sew
- stitch
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse sýja derived from Proto-Germanic *siwjaną (sew) derived from Proto-Indo-European *syuh₁- (sew, bind, tie).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*syuh₁-
Gloss
sew, bind, tie
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- besew English
- outsew English
- oversew English
- presew English
- re-sew English
- resew English
- sew English
- sewability English
- sewable English
- sewest English
- seweth English
- sewing English
- sewist English
- sewster English
- unsew English
- assuo Latin
- consuo Latin
- cōnsuere, cōnsuō, consuo Latin
- dissuo Latin
- insuo Latin
- sutela Latin
- suō Latin
- sūtor Latin
- sūtōrius Latin
- sūtūra Latin
- ὑμήν Ancient Greek
- *syuh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *syuh₁-tós Proto-Indo-European
- *sīw- Proto-Indo-European
- sy Norwegian Bokmål
- *saumaz Proto-Germanic
- *seudaz Proto-Germanic
- *siwjaną Proto-Germanic
- sy Swedish
- sy Norwegian Nynorsk
- siwian Old English
- sīwian Old English
- सिव् Sanskrit
- सीव्यति Sanskrit
- सीव्यति, সীৱ্যতি Sanskrit
- सूत्र Sanskrit
- sewen Middle English
- saumr Old Norse
- sýja Old Norse
- syer Danish
- *šija Proto-Slavic
- सीना Hindi
- સીવવું Gujarati
- *sūō Proto-Italic
- शिवणे Marathi
- siūti Lithuanian
- *síHwati Proto-Indo-Aryan
- sīa Old Frisian
- *sjūtei Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *sjū́ˀtei Proto-Balto-Slavic
- शिव्चे Konkani
- sībai inc-kho
- स्योनॊ Shina