köken: From Middle High German sāt, from Old High German sāt, from Proto-West Germanic *sādi, from Proto-Germanic *sēdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *sētis-, *seh₁tis, from *seh₁- (“to sow”). Compare English seed, Low German Saad, Hunsrik Soot, Dutch zaad, Danish sæd.
köken: First attested in the Dongmun yuhae (同文類解 / 동문유해), 1748, as Early Modern Korean 씨앗. The first syllable is likely related to 씨 (ssi, “seed, kernel”). Dialectal forms such as 시갓 (sigat) and 씨갓 (ssigat) show that this word may be a compound consisting of 씨 (ssi, “seed, kernel”) + a cranberry morpheme 갓 (gat). If this is the case, the standard Korean term must have undergone lenition from /k/ -> */ɣ/…
köken: From Old Swedish frø, (Compare Old Danish frø), from Old Norse fræ (Compare Icelandic fræ, Faroese fræ, Norwegian Bokmål frø), from Proto-Germanic *fraiwą, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-, *(s)prey-.
köken: Inherited from Late Latin sementia, plural of sementium, neuter form derived from Latin sēmentis, itself derived from sēmen (“seed”). Among certain rural areas the singular is used for both single and plural. Compare Aromanian simintsã, Italian semenza, French semence, Portuguese semente, Spanish semencera.