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Sec ,, ‘six,’ from and  sëhs; a common  and  Aryan ;   sehs,  zes,  and  six,  sehs,  saíhs;  Aryan seks (and sweks). šaš, Zend χšvaš, ἕξ,  sex,  chwech,  šestĭ.  ,, ‘two pecks,’ from sëhter, sëster, sëhster, , ‘a dry measure,’  sëhtâri, sëhstâri, ‘two pecks (about)'; derived, like  sëster, from  sextarius, whence also  sëster,  sestiere,  setier.   ,, ‘purse, bag, pocket,’ from sęckel,  sęcchil, , ‘purse’;  of ,  sacellum;   sachel,  satchel.   , and, ‘lake, sea,’ from  sê,  and , ‘sea, lake, ocean’ (the  predominates, and is used without distinction in all the senses);  sêo, , ‘sea, ocean,’ and in these significations occur  sêo,  see, ,  sœ̂,  and ,  sea;  sœ́r, , ‘ocean’;  saiws, , ‘lake, marsh.’ The common  *saiwi-, ‘ocean, lake,’ does not belong to any  verbal stem;  saevus, ‘savage’ ( ἀιόλος, ‘mobile’), seems to be allied (,  ‘the savage element’). While is peculiar to,  is common to some of the West Aryan languages.   ,, ‘soul,’ from the  sêle,  sêla (sē̆ula), ; a word peculiar to. saiwala,, sala, ,  sâwl, sâwul, ,  soul,  ziel,  sē̆ola,. The origin of the  saiwolô,, ‘soul,’ is obscure; it may be allied to  (,  ‘that which moves’):   αἰόλος. Its connection with saeculum, ‘age, generation’ ( ‘vital power’?), is equally possible;   âyu, ‘vital power,’ similar to  aevum, ‘age, time.’   ,, ‘sail,’ from the  sëgel,  sëgal, ;   sëgel, ,  zeil, ,  sëgel,  and ,  sail,  segl, , ‘sail’ ( *sigla- is not recorded). The word cannot have been borrowed from sagulum, ‘military cloak,’ on account of the sounds, and because no other  nautical expressions have been derived from ; besides, sagulum is not a  term. ( *segla-) looks very much like a term, yet the root cannot be ascertained. From the cognates  cingler and  singlar, ‘to sail,’ are derived.   ,, ‘blessing, bliss’, enchantment,’ from sëgen,  sëgan, , ‘sign of the cross, blessing resulting from it, magic spell’; borrowed on the introduction of Christianity (see , , and ) from  sîgnum; so too  sëganôn, ‘to bless,’  sëgnôn, ‘to bless,’  ‘to make the sign of the cross,’ from  sîgnâre. sëgen, ‘banner, military emblem,’ must have been borrowed at an earlier period from sîgnum; with the ë of the  words  the  loan-word sén, as well as  segno ( enseigne).  ,, ‘to see, look,’ from the  sëhen,  sëhan; a common  , and in this sense peculiar to this group. saihwan, sjá,  seón (from *seohan),  to see,  zien,  sëhan, ‘to see.’ The common  root sehw (with grammatical change segw, sew), from the pre- seq, closely agrees in sound with the Aryan root seq, ‘to follow, purse, accompany’;   sac, ‘to escort, promote,’  ἕπεσθαι, ‘to follow,’  sequi,  sekti, ‘to follow’; the assumption that these words are primitively allied presents no difficulty (hence  is perhaps  ‘to follow with the eyes’). The supposition that the term is connected with secare, ‘to cut’ (Aryan root sek, ‘to penetrate’?), is untenable.  ,, ‘sinew, tendon, nerve, string (of a bow),’ from sëne, sënewe, , ‘sinew, string (of a bow), nerve,’  sënawa, , ‘sinew’;   zenuw,  sinu, , and the   sinew,  sin, ;  *sinawa, , is wanting. The word is usually connected with snâva-s,, ‘sinew’ (the  words would also imply a  *sanâva-); its kinship with  ἶν-ες, ‘sinew,’ is improbable.  ,, ‘to long, yearn,’ from senen, ‘to long, inspire with longing’; allied to  sene, , ‘yearning, longing.’ Unrecorded in  and the other   perhaps only by chance; of obscure origin, but probably genuine. ,, ‘very greatly, very much’ (unknown to and , , ,  being used), from  sêre, sêr, , ‘with pain, painfully, powerfully, very’;  and  sêro, ‘painfully, with difficulty, violently’;  form of  and  ser, ‘painfully,’  sâr, , ‘painful, wounding.’ Allied to the   sair,  sâr, ‘pain’ ( sore),  sêr,