zien

• Rhymes: -ien, -en
• Hyphenation: zi‧en

zien (masculine allocutive ziean, feminine allocutive zienan)

1. Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person plural (haiei) as indirect object and third-person singular (hura) as direct object, past indicative form of izan.

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

zien

1. Feminine allocutive form of die.

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

From Middle Dutch sien, from Old Dutch sian, from Frankish *sehan, from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).

Originally a class 5 strong verb, but the Germanic *h was lost from the infinitive and present tense forms through syncope in Old Dutch. However, it alternated with *g in the past tense through Grammatischer Wechsel, and this remained.

• IPA^(key): /zin/

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• Hyphenation: zien
• Rhymes: -in

zien

1. (transitive) to see

   Ik zie jouw kat! ― I see your cat!

   Laat je nieuwe schoenen eens zien. ― Let me see your new shoes.

• Afrikaans: sien
• Javindo: sien, siet
• Jersey Dutch: zîn, zîne

• zyin

• IPA^(key): /ˈziːən/, /ˈziːɪn/

zien

1. present participle of zey
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 9:

     Zien, "a blaak vall, a blaak vall, Ich meigh vella knew,

     Saying "a black fall, a black fall——I might well have known,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129