Where does “sjá” come from?
sjá (Old Norse) comes from Albanian sasi, from French châssis, from French châsse, from Middle French chasse, from Old French chace, from Old French chacier, from Latin captiāre, from Latin captus — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
sjá (Old Norse): this, that; to see; first-person singular present...
Definitions
- this, that; to see; first-person singular present...
Ancestry of “sjá”, step by step
sjá traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Albanian sasi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albanian | sasi | quantity; number |
| 2 | French | châssis | chassis, frame; window |
| 3 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 4 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 5 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 6 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 7 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 8 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 9 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |