geseon

== Old English == === Alternative forms === ġesēa, ġisēa — Late Northumbrian ġesēan — Vespasian Psalter Mercian, Northumbrian ġesīan — Vespasian Psalter Mercian ġesīon — Early West Saxon === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *gasehwaną. Equivalent to ġe- +‎ sēon. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jeˈse͜oːn/ === Verb === ġesēon (Kentish, Rushworth Gospels Mercian, West Saxon) to see to appear, look ==== Usage notes ==== "To look" as in "to appear" is rendered with the phrase "to be seen": Lȳtel hē wæs ġesewen (“He looked small,” literally “he was seen small”), Iċ þē ġehāte þæt hit swā nis swā hit ġesewen is! (“I promise you, it's not what it looks like!”, literally “it's not how it's seen”). Sometimes the pronoun man is used in this function: Man ġeseah swelċe ān fȳren hring norðan cōme (“It looked like a ring of fire was coming from the north”). ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Notes on Conjugation ==== The forms granted in the Anglian table are specifically for the Mercian section of the Rushworth Gospels. See Hogg and Fulk (2011), Volume 2, at §6.62, and also see Campbell (1959) at §743. ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: yseen