An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/säen

by Friedrich Kluge

säen, verb, ‘to sow (seed),’ from the equivalent Middle High German sœjen, sœn, Old High German sâen (from an originally sêjan); compare the equivalent Gothic saian, Old Icelandic sá, Anglo-Saxon sawan, English to sow, Danish zaaijen, Old Saxon sâjan. The Teutonic root sê, ‘to sow,’ of which Saat and Same are derivatives, is common to the Aryan group; compare the Latin root sê in sê-vi, sa-tum, sê-men (Latin sero is a reduplicated present for *si-so); Old Slovenian sěja (sěti), ‘to sow,’ Lithuanian sěja (sěti), ‘to sow.’