seeme

English

Verb

seeme (third-person singular simple present seemes, present participle seeming, simple past and past participle seemed)

1. Obsolete spelling of seem.

Anagrams

• Meese, semée, semee, Esmee, meese

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *seemen, from a Baltic language.

Noun

seeme (genitive seemne, partitive seemet)

1. seed

Declension

Declension of seeme (ÕS type 5/liige, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		seeme	seemned
accusative	nom.
	gen.	seemne
genitive			seemnete
partitive		seemet	seemneid
illative		seemnesse	seemnetesse seemneisse
inessive		seemnes	seemnetes seemneis
elative		seemnest	seemnetest seemneist
allative		seemnele	seemnetele seemneile
adessive		seemnel	seemnetel seemneil
ablative		seemnelt	seemnetelt seemneilt
translative		seemneks	seemneteks seemneiks
terminative		seemneni	seemneteni
essive		seemnena	seemnetena
abessive		seemneta	seemneteta
comitative		seemnega	seemnetega

Derived terms

• seemnepurse
• seemnevedelik

Middle English

Verb

seeme

1. Alternative form of semen (“to seem”)

Votic

Alternative forms

• seemen, seemene

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *seemen.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈseːmeː/, [ˈseːme]
• Rhymes: -eːmeː
• Hyphenation: see‧me

Noun

seeme

1. seed

Inflection

Declension of seeme (type XIII/seeme, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	seeme	seemened
genitive	seemene	seemenije, seemenii
partitive	seemette	seemeniite, seemenii
illative	seemene, seemenese	seemeniise
inessive	seemenez	seemeniiz
elative	seemenesse	seemeniisse
allative	seemenele	seemeniile
adessive	seemenelle	seemeniille
ablative	seemenelte	seemeniilte
translative	seemenessi	seemeniissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn