Seeming is the present participle of 'seem', from Middle English 'semen', from Old Norse 'sœma' ('to conform to, befit'), from 'sœmr' ('fitting'). The historical chain includes Old Norse sœma. Older glosses in the chain include "seem", "semen", "sœma", and "to conform to, befit", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, seeming is best read as borrowing, yielding an English adjective and noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a adjective and noun, with the sense "appearing to be true but perhaps not so; apparent". English derivatives include seemingly; related forms include seem, seemly, and beseem. The result is an English adjective and noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.