seer

• IPA^(key): /sɪə(ɹ)/, /siːə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ), -iːə(ɹ)
• Homophones: cere, sear, sihr

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see +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

seer (plural seers)

1. One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 185:

     "But I must not forget to tell you that the lad was born on a Sunday, and had found a card with the four of clubs; therefore he was a seer, that is to say, he could see the supernatural people, but they could not see him."

2. One who sees something; an eyewitness.
   • 1924, Arthur Eustace Morgan, Tendencies of Modern English Drama (page 140)

     As a seer of beautiful visions, or, shall we say, of visions of the beautiful, he is never weary of celebrating the poet and his vocation.

• seeress

See sihr.

seer (plural seers)

1. Alternative form of sihr

• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SERE, eres, rees, rese, sere

• sehr

From Middle High German sēr, from Old High German sēr (“sored, injured”), from Proto-West Germanic *sair. Cognate with German sehr.

• IPA^(key): /seːr/

seer

1. very

   Hät mi seer gfroit, Sii kännezlärne.

   It was very nice to meet (polite) you.

   (literally, “(It) gladdened me very to get to know (polite) you.”)

• uu
• mega (colloquial)

From se (“to see”) +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /seːər/, [ˈseːˀɐ]
• Rhymes: -eːˀɐ

seer c (singular definite seeren, plural indefinite seere)

1. viewer (someone who watches television)
2. seer (someone who foretells the future)

• (viewer): fjernseer, kigger, kikker, tv-kigger, tv-kikker, tv-seer

• seer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Old Dutch sēr, from Proto-West Germanic *sair.

sêer

1. painful, sore
2. sick

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• sêre

• Dutch: zeer

From Old Dutch sēr, from Proto-West Germanic *sair.

sêer n

1. pain, ache
2. sorrow, emotional pain

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: zeer

• “seer (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “seer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “seer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “seer (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“dry”)

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“differing”)

From se +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːər/

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• Rhymes: -ər
• Hyphenation: se‧er
• Homophones: C-er, c-er

seer m (definite singular seeren, indefinite plural seere, definite plural seerne)

1. (TV) a viewer
2. a seer, prophet

• “seer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• ser

From Latin sedēre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.eɾ/

seer

1. to be
   • 13th century, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Quen vai contra Santa María con sobervia :

     [...] contra a que vencer foi ao démo per saber ser homildosa [...]

     [...] against her who defeated the devil by being humble [...]

• Galician: ser
• Portuguese: ser

From Latin sedēre, present active infinitive of sedeō. As time passed, it merged with ser (“to be”), from Latin sum (“to be”).

seer

1. to be
2. to sit
   • 9th century, Anonymous, Glosas Emilianenses :

     in domo tua manes (tu siedes)

     [in Latin] you sit/remain at home, [in Old Spanish, glossing Latin manēs ‘you remain’] you sit/remain

   • between 1140-1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid 1001:

     Las armas auien presas & sedien sobre los cauallos

     They had taken up arms and were sitting on their horses

   • between 1140-1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid 3118:

     Sed en ũtro eſcaño com̃o Rey a ſeñor
     (normalized) Sed en vuestro escaño, como rey a señor

     Sit on your chair, as a king [overlooking] a lord

   • 1250, Anonymous, Pre-Alphonsian Bible E6 Mark.13.22:

     e farã ſignos é marauillas pora engannar los eſcogidos ſi ſeer puede
     (normalized) E farán signos e maravillas pora engañar los escogidos si seer puede

     And they shall make signs and wonders to trick the elect if it can be (=if it's possible)

• Spanish: ser (in part)

• eseyente