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sejare

sejare

Swedish

Noun

sejare c

  1. (dated) a sundial, a clock
    giöra en stoor Seijare som slår hwar Tijma
    to craft a large clock that strikes each hour
    efter vår sejare
    according to our telling of time (to our clock)
    rycka visaren och draga sejaren tillbaka
    to pull the hand and draw the clock back (to regret what was said, to "turn back time")
  2. (dated) indicator of a sundial, hand of a clock

Declension

Inflection of sejare 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sejare sejaren sejare sejarna
Genitive sejares sejarens sejares sejarnas

References

Etymology

From Old Swedish seghiare, seghare, säyare, from Middle Low German seyger, sēer, seyer, segger ‎(“scale, balance, tower clock”), probably from Middle High German seigære ‎(“scale, clock”). Possibly related to French essay ‎(“attempt, test”), Italian saggio ‎(“examination”), and Late Latin exagium ‎(“weighing, weight, scale”). The balance in older tower clocks looked like the beam of a scale. Under the influence of the similar German term Zeiger ‎(“indicator, hand of a clock”) it also has this meaning.

Compounds have been made with sejar-, sejare-, sejer-, and seger-. For example, seger-hus (in the 1660s) means "clock case".

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