seede
English
editNoun
editseede (plural seedes)
- Obsolete spelling of seed.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5[1]:
- THE RUINES OF TIME. DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND BEAUTIFULL LADIE, THE LA: MARIE, COUNTESSE OF PEMEBROOKE. Most honourable and bountifull Ladie, there bee long sithens deepe sowed in my brest the seede of most entire love and humble affection unto that most brave knight, your noble brother deceased; which, taking roote, began in his life time somewhat to bud forth, and to shew themselves to him, as then in the weakenes of their first spring; and would in their riper strength (had it pleased High God till then to drawe out his daies) spired forth fruit of more perfection.
- 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia[2]:
- Vppon the braunches of the coorrall, there were artificially sette certayne open flowers with fiue leaues, some of Saphyre, some of Iacynth and Berill, and in the middest of them a little round seede of golde, fastening the leaues to the stalke of corrall.
- 1850, Various, Notes & Queries, No. 39. Saturday, July 27, 1850[3]:
- It bringeth foorth at the top of the branches little yellow floures, and afterward small rough whitish and flat huskes, and almost round fashioned like bucklers, wherein is contained a flat seede almost like to the seed of castell or stocke gilloflers, but greater.
- 1881, Charles Dudley Warner, Captain John Smith[4]:
- After this they brought him a bagge of gunpowder, which they carefully preserved till the next spring, to plant as they did their corne, because they would be acquainted with the nature of that seede.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editseede
- Alternative form of seed (“seed”)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editseede
- Alternative form of seden
North Frisian
editAlternative forms
edit- sai (Föhr-Amrum)
- sii (Sylt)
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *sagjaną.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editseede
Conjugation
editConjugation of seede (Mooring dialect)
infinitive I | seede | |
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infinitive II | (tu) seeden | |
infinitive III | än seed | |
past participle | säid | |
imperative | seed | |
present | past | |
1st-person singular | seed | sää |
2nd-person singular | säist | sääst |
3rd-person singular | säit | sää |
plural | seede | sään |
perfect | pluperfect | |
1st-person singular | hääw säid | häi säid |
2nd-person singular | hääst säid | häist säid |
3rd-person singular | heet säid | häi säid |
plural | hääwe säid | häin säid |
future (schale) | future (wårde) | |
1st-person singular | schal seede | wård seede |
2nd-person singular | schäät seede | wårst seede |
3rd-person singular | schal seede | wårt seede |
plural | schan seede | wårde seede |
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