Etymograph

English

Seine

Seine comes from French Seine, and goes back to Latin Sequana.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CESequana
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentSeine
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CESequana
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentSeine
  3. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- ‘to pour, spill, trickle’

soul, sea, sigh, sie, sicker, sitch, sike, seel, 2 more

Today it means

name A river in northern France that flows through Paris for about 772 km (480 mi) to the English Channel near Le Havre.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin Sequana / Seine

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