sea

Betekenis

1. A large body of salt water.
2. A large body of salt water.
3. A large body of salt water.
4. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
5. The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
6. Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
7. Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
8. A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
9. A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
10. A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/siː/

Etymologie

From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Swedish sjö), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”); more at sore) or derived from *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), in which case *saiwiz is from earlier *saigwiz, Pre-Germanic *soykʷ-ís.