An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/seicht

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seichen

An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, S
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2524670An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, S — seichtJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

seicht, adjective, ‘low, shallow, flat,’ from Middle High German sîhte, adjective, ‘low, shallow’; Old High German *sîhti not recorded; probably allied to sinken, hence literally ‘where the water has sunk into the ground,’ or ‘that which has sunk, or is low’; scarcely akin to seihen, literally ‘where it gently flows’?.