seave

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse sef^[1], whence also Danish siv, Icelandic sef and Swedish säv (“club-rush”).

Noun

seave (plural seaves)

(UK, dialect) A rush (the plant).
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Derived terms

seavy

References

^ “Siv” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “seave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

[1] “Siv” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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