Where does “Sense” come from?

Sense (German) comes from Old High German segisna, from Proto-West Germanic segisnu.

Sense (German): scythe

Definitions

  1. scythe

Ancestry of “Sense”, step by step

Sense traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old High German segisna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germansegisna—
2Proto-West Germanicsegisnu—

via Old High German segansa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germansegansa—
2Proto-Germanic*sagisnu—

Words derived from “Sense”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic segisnu →Every word from Old High German segisna →