Icelandic

Verb

sjá ‎(strong verb, third-person singular past indicative sá, third-person plural past indicative sáu, supine séð)

1. to see, to sense or perceive with one's eyes

   Sérðu illa? — Nei, ég sé mjög vel.

   Have you got bad eyesight? — No, I see very well.

2. to see, to perceive, to spot ^syn.
3. to see, to understand ^syn.

   Þú hlýtur að sjá hvað þetta er asnaleg hugmynd!‎

   You must see what a stupid idea this is!

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (spot): ^def. koma auga á
• (understand): ^def. skilja, botna í

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From the same ultimate origin as sá and þat. Related to Old English se. Cognate with Old English þes, Old High German dese, English this and German diese.

Pronoun

sjá ‎(neuter þetta)

1. (demonstrative) this, that (referring to both persons and things)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *sehwaną ‎(“to see”) (for cognates see there). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- ‎(“to see, notice”).

Alternative forms

• séa
• siá

Verb

sjá

1. to see

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Faroese: síggja
• Icelandic: sjá
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjå
• Swedish: se (from séa)
• Danish: se (from séa)

References

• Old English and its relatives, Google books
• Ragnvald Iversen, Norrøn grammatikk, 6th edition, 1961.