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Sei  and  sêr,, ‘pain’; from the   is derived  sairas, ‘sick.’ The common  saira- seems, like  sáeth, sóeth, ‘hurt, disease,’ to point to a root sai, ‘to pain.’ The earlier meaning is preserved by  and  sêr, ‘wounded, painful,’ and , ‘to wound’;   zeer, ‘injured, injury, sickness, scab.’ ,, ‘to make water,’ from the  seichen,  seihhen; allied to  , ‘urine,’ and the   seiche, , seich, ,  seih, ;  *saiqjan, ‘to make water,’ is wanting; with these , ‘to ooze,’ and  sêken, ‘to make water’ ( root saik, saiq), are connected. The Aryan root sī̆q, mentioned under, appears in as sĭcati, with the same meaning, ‘to make water’;   sĭcĭ, , ‘urine.’ ,, ‘low, shallow, flat,’ from sîhte, , ‘low, shallow’;  *sîhti not recorded; probably allied to , hence  ‘where the water has sunk into the ground,’ or ‘that which has sunk, or is low’; scarcely akin to ,  ‘where it gently flows’?.  ,, ‘silk,’ from the  sîde,  sîda, ; derived from  sêta, ‘silk,’ like  chrîda, from  crêta. The d of the words must be explained by the soft mute of the  languages, appearing in,  and North  seda and  seta, ‘silk’ ( soie), just as in  greda, ‘chalk,’ compared with  creta. sêta, crêta (ê closed; see, , , and ), may have been borrowed about the 10th. From sêta ( ‘bristle’)  síta is also derived. For the assumption that the Phœnician town of Sidon furnished both the material and the name, or rather sêta, there is no historic proof. In another term is used,  seole, seoloc,  silk, to which the   silke,, is allied. It is usually assumed that these latter terms come from the, in which serîcus ( síric) means ‘of silk’; they must, however, especially since their forms can scarcely be deduced from the , be more fittingly connected, like šelkŭ, , ‘silk,’ with an Eastern term;   sirgek, ‘silk.’ The Seres, from whom the Greeks obtained their term σηρικὸς ( sêricus), , cannot, as an East Asiatic people, be regarded as the imme - diate source of the North  loan-words.   , and, ‘pint,’ from the  late  sîdel, sîdelîn, ; from  sîtula ( secchia, ‘pail’), ‘bucket,’ whence also  sithal; with regard to the lengthening of  ĭ to  î in an open syllable, see , and for d representing t, see.   ,, ‘spurge-laurel, mezereon,’ derived under the influence of (on account of the fine bast?) from the   zîdelbast (also zîtzelbast), , called also zîlant; origin obscure. Perhaps zîdel-weide, ‘rearing of bees,’ is allied.   ,, ‘soap,’ from the  seife,  seifa,  ( also ‘resin’);   zeep,  sâpe (hence  sápa),  soap;  *saipjô is implied by  seipfa ( and Swiss ), and by the  loan-word saippio. seifa, sâp, ‘resin,’ might suggest the assumption that  belongs, like  sîpan,  sîfen, and  zijpelen, ‘to trickle,’ to the  root sī̆p, to which  sébum, ‘tallow,’ is usually referred, But Pliny says that ‘soap’ (sâpo) was an invention of the Gauls, “Gallorum hoc inventum rutilandis capillis; fit ex sebo et cinere ... apud Germanos majore in usu viris quam feminis.” The  sâpo of Pliny, however, is, like its derivatives  savon,  sapona, none other than the  *saipô; perhaps soap (the Romans were not acquainted with it) may be regarded as a  invention. Yet it is remarkable that Pliny speaks of soap only as a “pomade for colouring the hair.” The term sâpo, ‘soap,’ was not frequently used in until the 4th. Another word for soap is represented by  lather,  leáðor,  lauðr.   , t., ‘straining, strainer, colander,’ from the  sîhe,  sîha,. Allied to, ‘to strain, filter,’ from sîhen,  sîhan, ‘to strain, filter, trickle’;   zijgen, ‘to filter through, decay, faint,’  seón (from *sîhan), ‘to strain,’ and the   sía. Identical with these are sîgen,  and  sîgan, ‘to fall down, trickle.’  root sī̆h, sī̆hw (with grammatical change sī̆g, sī̆w), from pre- sī̆q, ‘to trickle down’;   sĭcati, ‘to make water,’  sic, ‘to pour out’ ( ἰκμάς, ‘moisture’?), An   root is also indicated by , , and. 