sed- / Indo-European roots

Examples of words with the root sed-: -hedron, assess, assiduous, banshee, beset, cathedra, cosset, dissident, edaphic, eisteddfod, ephedra, ersatz, exedra, eyas, insidious, isopiestic, nest, niche, nide, nidicolous, nidifugous, nidify, nidus, obsess, piezo-, possess, preside, reside, saddle, Sanhedrin.

sed-

To sit.

▲ Derivatives include sit, soot, séance, siege, obsess, subside, soil¹, chair.

I. Basic form *sed-.

1. Suffixed form *sed-yo-. a. sit from Old English sittan, to sit; b. sitz bath, sitzmark from Old High German sizzen, to sit. Both a and b from Germanic *sitjan.

2. Suffixed form *sed-lo-, seat. settle from Old English setl, seat, from Germanic *setlaz.

3. Suffixed (stative) form *sed-ē-. séance, sedentary, sederunt, sedile, sediment, sessile, session, sewer², siege; assess, assiduous, assize, dissident, insidious, obsess, possess, preside, reside, subsidy, supersede, surcease from Latin sedēre, to sit.

4. Suffixed form *sed-rā-. -hedron; cathedra, cathedral, chair, ephedrine, exedra, Sanhedrin from Greek hedrā, seat, chair, face of a geometric solid.

5. Prefixed and suffixed form *pi-sed-yo-, to sit upon (*pi, on; see epi) piezo-; isopiestic from Greek piezein, to press tight.

6. Basic form *sed-. a. edaphic from Greek edaphos, ground, foundation (with Greek suffix -aphos); b. Upanishad from Sanskrit upaniṣad, Upanishad, from -sad, sitting; c. tanist from Old Irish tánaise, designated successor, from Celtic *tānihessio-, "one who is waited for" from *to-ad-ni-sed-tio, from *to-ad-ni-sed-, to wait for (*ad-, to; see ad-).

7. Suffixed form *sed-o-, sitting. eisteddfod from Welsh eistedd, sitting, from Celtic *eks-dī-sedo- (*eks-, out, and *dī-, out, from; see eghs and de-)

II. O-grade form *sod-.

1. Perhaps suffixed form *sod-dhlo-. saddle from Old English sadol, saddle, from Germanic *sadulaz, seat, saddle.

2. Suffixed (causative) form *sod-eyo-. a. set¹ from Old English settan, to place; b. beset from Old English besettan, to set near; c. ersatz from Old High German irsezzan, to replace, from sezzan, to set. a-c all from Germanic *(bi-)satjan, to cause to sit, set.

3. Suffixed form *sod-yo-. soil¹ from Latin solium, throne, seat.

III. Zero-grade form *-sd- (in compounds), assimilated to *-zd-.

1. Reduplicated form *si-sd- becoming *si-zd-. a. subside from Latin sīdere, to sit down, settle; b. synizesis from Greek hizein, to sit down, settle down.

2. Compound suffixed form *ni-zd-o-, nest, literally "(bird's place of) sitting down" (*ni-, down). a. nest from Old English nest, from Germanic *nistaz; b. niche, nick, nide, nidus; eyas, nidicolous, nidifugous, nidify from Latin nīdus. nest.

3. Compound suffixed form *kuzdho-zd- (see (s)keu-)

IV. Lengthened-grade form *sēd-.

1. see² from Latin sēdēs, seat, residence.

2. Suffixed form *sēd-i-, settler. cosset possibly from Old English -sǣta, -sǣte, inhabitant(s), from Germanic *sētōn-, *sēti-.

3. Suffixed form *sēd-yo-. seat from Old Norse sæti, seat, from Germanic *(ge)sētjam, seat (*ge-,*ga-, collective prefix; see kom)

4. Suffixed form *sēd-ā-. sedate¹ from Latin sēdāre, to settle, calm down.

5. Suffixed form *sēd-es-, seat. banshee from Old Irish síd, fairy mound.

V. Lengthened o-grade form *sōd-. soot from Old English sōt, soot (< "that which settles"), from Germanic *sōtam, from suffixed form *sōd-o-.

[Pokorny sed- 884.]

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