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Sem silly). Cognate terms in the non- languages are wanting.  ',, ‘roll,’ from  sëmel, sëmele (also simel),  sëmala, simila, , ‘fine wheat flour or bread, roll’; a word peculiar to , allied to  sëmon, ‘to eat.’  simila, ‘wheat flour,’ whence also  semola,  semoule, ‘bran from fine wheat flour,’ has been influenced by the  word.  ', , ‘free-born, entitled to act as assessor of the synod,’ from  sëmpervrÎ, ‘subject only to the emperor and empire, authorised to hold a synod or to take part in it.’ Allied to  sënt, , ‘senatus, diet, imperial diet,’ also ‘ecclesiastical assembly,’ like  sënot ( synodus);  sëmpœre, sëntbœre, , ‘authorised to take part in a synod.’ , , ‘to send, dispatch,’ from the   sęnden,  sęnten; a common  ;   sandjan,  sęndan,  to send,  zenden,  sęndian,  senda, ‘to send.’ Factitive of a lost  *sinþan, ‘to go, travel’; thus  is  ‘to cause to go.’   and.  ,, ‘senna (tree),’ only, formed from the   séné ( senna),  sena. The ultimate source is sana.   ,, ‘seneschal, high steward,’ from the  seneschalt, sineschalt, , which is derived from ;  the cognates  sénéchal,  siniscalco ( siniscalcus), ‘high steward.’ The  words are based on an  word ( *sinaskalks, ‘head servant’);   sinista, ‘eldest,’ which is  allied to  sen,  senex, senior,  sénas,  sánas, ‘old.’ With regard to the second part of the compound   (and ). The invariable t at the end of the word is remarkable.   ,, ‘mustard,’ from the  sënf, sënef, ,  sënaf, ; corresponding to  sinap,  sënep, ‘mustard.’ The other  have, like , the term. It cannot be determined through what medium and  σίνᾶπι, sinâpi, ‘mustard,’ were introduced at so early a period that the  and  terms correspond; but since they are not genuine Aryan words, it is possible the South Teutons and Græco- obtained them independently from the same source.  ,, ‘to singe, scorch, from sęngen, ‘to singe, burn,’  ‘to cause to singe or crackle’; a factitive of  and  singen, with a peculiar development of meaning, which is shared by the  to singe, from  *sęnğęan.  , ,‘plumb-line,’ from sęnkel,, ‘plumb-line, lace,’ also ‘anchor, drag-net,’  sęnchil, ‘anchor, drag-net.’ Allied to ,  sęnken,  sęnchen, ‘to lower’ (factitive of ;   sęnkian,  sagqjan, ‘to lower, let down’).   ,, ‘cowherd,’ only,  *senne is not recorded, but in late  (rarely), sęnnœ̂re, ‘herdsman, cowherd.’ The antiquity of the  term is attested, however, by  sęnno, , ‘herdsman,’ as well as by late  sęnne, ‘pasture on the Alps.’ On account of the restriction of the cognates to  the origin of the word is not quite certain; it is usually connected with  ( *sana, ‘cream,’ *sanja, ‘cowherd’).   ,, ‘scythe,’ from sē̆́nse, sëgense,  sëgansa, , ‘sickle, scythe’ (for the suffix see ); corresponding to  *sëgasna (sëgisna),  zeissen, ‘scythe.’ From a  root seg, ‘to cut’ (see ), whence  sigðr,  sigðe, sîþe, ,  scythe,  sicht;  allied to  secare and securis, Aryan root sek, ‘to cut.’   ,, ‘herd,’ only; allied to. <section end="Sente" /> <section begin="Sessel" /> ,, ‘settle,’ from the  sëȥȥel,  sëȥȥal, ; corresponding to  setl,  settle,  sitls, , ‘seat, stool.’ A derivative of the  root set, ‘to sit,’ like  sella, for *sedla from sêdeo;  also  ἔδρα, from ἔζομαι,  sedlo, ‘saddle,’ from sĕsti, ‘to sit down’;. <section end="Sessel" /> <section begin="Sester" /> ,, ‘bushel,’ of the same origin as. <section end="Sester" /> <section begin="seßhaft" /> ,, ‘settled, stationary, residing, from sëȥhaft, ‘settled, residing,’ allied to  and  sëȥ, ‘seat, residence’; akin to. <section end="seßhaft" /> ,, ‘to set, put, place,’ from sętzen,  sęzzen, ‘to set, cause to sit’; an  factitive of. saljan (whence sagire,  saisir),  sęttan,  to set,  zetten,  sęttian,  setja, ‘to set.’ <section begin="Seuche" /> ,, ‘epidemic, plague,’ from<section end="Seuche" />