seer

See also: SEER and şeer

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /siːɹ/, /siː.əɹ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ), -iːə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: sear, sihr

Etymology 1

see +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

seer (plural seers)

  1. One who sees something; an eyewitness.
  2. One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
Translations

Etymology 2

See sihr.

Noun

seer (plural seers)

  1. Alternative form of sihr

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From se (“to see”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /seːər/, [ˈseːˀɐ]
  • Rhymes: -eːˀɐ

Noun

seer c (singular definite seeren, plural indefinite seere)

  1. viewer (someone who watches television)
  2. seer (someone who foretells the future)

Inflection
Declension of seer
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative seer seeren seere seerne
genitive seers seerens seeres seernes

Synonyms
  • (viewer): fjernseer, kigger, kikker, tv-kigger, tv-kikker, tv-seer

Further reading

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch sēr, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz.

Adjective

sêer

  1. painful, sore
  2. sick
Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch sēr, from Proto-Germanic *sairą.

Noun

sêer n

  1. pain, ache
  2. sorrow, emotional pain
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading
  • “seer (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “seer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “seer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
  • “seer (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Noun

seer

  1. Alternative form of sere (“dry”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From se +‎ -er

Noun

seer m (definite singular seeren, indefinite plural seere, definite plural seerne)

  1. (TV) a viewer
  2. a seer, prophet

See also

References

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin sedēre, present active infinitive of sedeō.

Verb

seer

  1. to be
    Um ric'home a que um trobador" by Afonso Sanches, Lord of Albuquerque
    • vi-o seer em um logar peior.
    (I saw him being in a worse place.)

Descendants


Old Spanish

Etimology

From Latin sedēre, present active infinitive of sedeō. This verb creates syncretism with Latin sum.

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