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Sie  the only allied term is sauþs,, ‘offering’ ( sauðr, ‘sheep,’  ‘sacrificial animal’). An Aryan root sut seems to be wanting in the cognate languages.  ,, ‘settler’;.   ,, ‘victory, triumph, conquest,’ from the  sige, also sic (g),  sigi, sigu, ; a common  word;   sigis,  sigr,  segor and sige,  zege. The great antiquity of the stem segoz, sigiz, is attested both by the proper names Segi-mêrus, Segi-mundus, and Segestes, mentioned by Tacitus, and by the terms in the cognate languages; Aryan séghos,, ‘prevailing might,’ is implied also by  sáhas and Zend hazaṅh, ‘power, might, victory.’   sah, ‘to overpower, vanquish, conquer,’ to which  ἔχω ( ἔ-σχ-ον) and  segaim, ‘I attain,’ are closely allied.   ,, ‘seal, signet,’ from the late  sigel,  (wanting in ); in the classical period  insigel, insigele,  insigili,. It cannot be determined whether sigel, which was substituted for the latter term, was borrowed at a later period from  sigillum, or whether it was formed again from  besigelen ( bisigelen), ‘to seal,’ and entsigelen ( intsigilen), ‘to unseal’; nor is it known how  insigili is related to  sigillum. In a term sigljô,, occurs.   ,, ‘brace, strap,’ from the  sile,  silo; the latter is allied to the root sī̆, ‘to bind,’ in ; on the  variant sil are based  , , and ,.   ,, ‘sexton, sacristan,’ from the  sigriste,  (also ) sigristo; borrowed during the  period contemporaneously with , , and especially with  and , from  sacrista, whose  variant segrista(nus) leads to  segretain (in  sacristain,  sagrestano,  sexton).   ,, ‘syllable,’ from the  silbe, earlier sillabe,  sillaba, ; borrowed from  and  syllaba, probably at the same period as , and the words relating to writing, such as  and.   ,, ‘silver,’ from the  silber,  silbar, earlier silabar, ; a common  word with corresponding forms;   silubr,  seolofer,  seolfor,  silver,  zilver,  silaƀar. Tins  term is pre-historically connected  with the   cognates,  sĭrebro,  sidabras. The implied *siloƀro- is certainly not an Aryan word; perhaps the Teutons adopted it in their migration from a non-Aryan tribe and transmitted it to the Slavs. The - term argentum, ἄργυρος, seems, like the  rajatá (in the Vedas silver is unknown), to point to a  Aryan term of which  has retained no trace. Another non-Aryan word of prehistoric is.   ,, ‘tether, string’; see , so too. <section end="Sill" /> <section begin="Simmer" /> , ‘half a bushel,’ for earlier  and  sümmer, whose variants sümber, sumber (sümbrîn), lead to  sumbir (sumbrîn). ‘basket.’ The suffix în occurs in several terms denoting vessels (see ); the syllable ber in sümber recalls  and. <section end="Simmer" /> <section begin="Simpel" /> ,, ‘simpleton,’ only, from the  , which comes from  simple. <section end="Simpel" /> <section begin="Sims" /> , and, ‘cornice, shelf, mantelpiece,’ from the   simȥ, simeȥ,  simiȥ ( simiȥstein, ‘capitellum’); a corresponding *simito- is wanting in the other  languages; its pre-historic existence is proved by its kinship with  sîma, ‘ogee, moulding.’ To  simeȥ belongs the  collective gesimeȥe,. The derivation from cymaise ( κυμάτιον) is inconceivable. <section end="Sims" /> <section begin="Sinau" /> ,, ‘lady's mantle’; the earlier variants  and  point to  and  *sintou, whose  sense, ‘ever-dew’ (see ), characterises the plant more simply than the terms ,  ‘dew-holder,’ and ,  ‘dew-key,’ which are applied to it. <section end="Sinau" /> <section begin="Sindflut" /> , see. <section end="Sindflut" /> ,, ‘to sing, chant,’ from the  singen,  and  singan; a common   occurring in the same sense in all the ;   seggwan,  syngva,  singan,  to sing,  zingen (yet  also ‘to read,’  also ‘to crow’). The root singw, which appears also in, &c., is only doubtfully related to some terms in the non- languages; it is said to be  allied to  ( root sag, from Aryan seq), and to this there is no phonetic