siechen

== German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈziːçən/ === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German siechen, from siohhēn, from Proto-West Germanic *seukēn. Cognate with Low German süüken, seeken and Swedish sjukna. ==== Verb ==== siechen (weak, third-person singular present siecht, past tense siechte, past participle gesiecht, auxiliary haben) (chiefly literary) to be very ill, bedridden for a long time, moribund (obsolete) to be ill (in general) ===== Usage notes ===== Now mostly used with vor sich hin or replaced by the derivative dahinsiechen. ===== Conjugation ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== siechen inflection of siech: strong genitive masculine/neuter singular weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular strong dative plural weak/mixed all-case plural === Further reading === “siechen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “siechen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon