see

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to notice or be aware of something using your eyes

   I can see the mountains from my window.

2. 2
   verb

   to understand something

   Now I see what you mean.

3. 3
   verb

   to meet or visit someone

   I'm going to see my grandmother this weekend.

4. 4
   verb

   to find out or check something

   Let me see if the shop is still open.

5. 5
   verb

   to go with someone to a place

   I'll see you to the door.

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Simplified etymology

See meaning “perceive with the eyes” is an Old English word of Germanic origin and may come from the same ancient root as Latin sequi, meaning “to follow.” The distinct noun see, referring to the district of a bishop or archbishop, goes back to Latin sedere, meaning “to sit.”

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”). Cognates Cognate with Scots see, sei (“to see”), Yola sau, ze, zee, zey, zie (“to see”), North Frisian se, si, siin, siine, siinj, sä, säie (“to see”), Saterland Frisian sjo (“to see”), West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Bavarian segn (“to see”), Central Franconian sehn, senn (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn (“to see; to look”), German se…

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