"senēn" meaning in Proto-West Germanic

See senēn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: Unclear, possibly from *sinu (“sinew”) + *-ēn, in the sense 'to become like a sinew, become tense'. Etymology templates: {{suffix|gmw-pro|*sinu|*-ēn|id2=stative-fientive|t1=sinew}} *sinu (“sinew”) + *-ēn Head templates: {{head|gmw-pro|verb}} *senēn Inflection templates: {{gmw-infl-verb-wk3}} Forms: weak [table-tags], senēn [infinitive], senēnijas [genitive, infinitive], senēnijē [dative, infinitive], senēniju [infinitive, instrumental], senē [first-person, present, singular], sen?dā [first-person, past, singular], senēs [present, second-person, singular], sen?dēs [past, second-person, singular], senēþ [present, singular, third-person], sen?dē [past, singular, third-person], sen?dā [past, singular, third-person], senēm [first-person, plural, present], sen?dum [first-person, past, plural], senēþ [plural, present, second-person], sen?dud [past, plural, second-person], senēnþ [plural, present, third-person], sen?dun [past, plural, third-person], sen?dī [first-person, past, singular], sen?dī [past, second-person, singular], senē [present, singular, third-person], sen?dī [past, singular, third-person], sen?dīm [first-person, past, plural], sen?dīd [past, plural, second-person], senēn [plural, present, third-person], sen?dīn [past, plural, third-person], senē [present, singular], senēþ [plural, present], senēndī [participle, present], sen?d [participle, past]
  1. to become tired, languish Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-senēn-gmw-pro-verb-PPy8opO7
  2. to worry Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-senēn-gmw-pro-verb-YhZ3OYEY
  3. to long for Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-senēn-gmw-pro-verb-8ew9zemE Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header, Proto-West Germanic terms suffixed with *-ēn (stative-fientive) Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 33 42 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 25 58 Disambiguation of Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header: 15 20 65 Disambiguation of Proto-West Germanic terms suffixed with *-ēn (stative-fientive): 11 14 74
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      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "seonian"
          },
          "expansion": "Old English: seonian",
          "name": "desc"
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      ],
      "text": "Old English: seonian"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "expansion": "Old Saxon: *senon",
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      "text": "Old Saxon: *senon"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
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            "1": "gml",
            "2": "senen"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle Low German: senen",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle Low German: senen"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "goh",
            "2": "senēn"
          },
          "expansion": "Old High German: senēn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old High German: senēn"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
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          "args": {
            "1": "gmh",
            "2": "senen"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle High German: senen",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle High German: senen"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "sehnen"
          },
          "expansion": "German: sehnen",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "German: sehnen"
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unclear, possibly from *sinu (“sinew”) + *-ēn, in the sense 'to become like a sinew, become tense'.",
  "forms": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "senēnijas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēnijē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēniju",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dud",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēnþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dīm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dīd",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dīn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senē",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēþ",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēndī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?d",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "verb"
      },
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      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "gmw-infl-verb-wk3"
    }
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  "lang_code": "gmw-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/senēn",
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      "glosses": [
        "to become tired, languish"
      ],
      "id": "en-senēn-gmw-pro-verb-PPy8opO7",
      "links": [
        [
          "tired",
          "tired"
        ],
        [
          "languish",
          "languish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to worry"
      ],
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        [
          "worry",
          "worry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "25 33 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 25 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 20 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 14 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-West Germanic terms suffixed with *-ēn (stative-fientive)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to long for"
      ],
      "id": "en-senēn-gmw-pro-verb-8ew9zemE",
      "links": [
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "senēn"
}
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-West Germanic class 3 weak verbs",
    "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-West Germanic lemmas",
    "Proto-West Germanic terms suffixed with *-ēn (stative-fientive)",
    "Proto-West Germanic verbs"
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        }
      ],
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    },
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      "depth": 2,
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            "2": "senen"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle Low German: senen",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle Low German: senen"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "goh",
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old High German: senēn"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmh",
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "Middle High German: senen"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
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            "1": "de",
            "2": "sehnen"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "German: sehnen"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Unclear, possibly from *sinu (“sinew”) + *-ēn, in the sense 'to become like a sinew, become tense'.",
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    {
      "form": "senēn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēnijas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
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    },
    {
      "form": "senēnijē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēniju",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dud",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēnþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dīm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?dīd",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēn",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "plural",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senēndī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sen?d",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gmw-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/senēn",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to become tired, languish"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "tired"
        ],
        [
          "languish",
          "languish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to worry"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "worry",
          "worry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to long for"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "senēn"
}

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