seisir

== Irish == === Noun === seisir m inflection of seisear: vocative/genitive singular nominative/dative plural === Mutation === == Old French == === Etymology === From Medieval Latin sacire. The Trésor de Langue Française Informatisé and Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch both link seisir back to Old High German *sazjan. === Verb === seisir to grip (hold firmly) to seize (take by force) ==== Conjugation ==== This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide. ==== Descendants ==== → English: seize French: saisir === References === === Further reading === Frédéric Godefroy (1902), “saisir, v. a.”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], volume X (Complément: Inaccoutumé–Zoophyte), Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC, page 612, columns 2–3.