sighen
Appearance
Middle Dutch
[edit]Verb
[edit]sighen
- Alternative spelling of sigen
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from sighte, siȝhte, past tense forms of siken, from Old English sīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out”).
Verb
[edit]sighen (third-person singular simple present sigheth, present participle sighende, sighynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sighed)
- (intransitive) to sigh; to moan
- to sigh for; to sigh in regret for
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of sighen (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
[edit]- English: sigh
References
[edit]- “sī̆ghen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Categories:
- Middle Dutch non-lemma forms
- Middle Dutch verb forms
- Middle English back-formations
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English verbs
- Middle English intransitive verbs
- Middle English weak verbs