sea

Meaning

Noun

• A large body of salt water.
• A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
• The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
• Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
• Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea.
• A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
• A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
• A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Origin

• From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ ("sea"), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Swedish sjö), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey- ("to be fierce, afflict") (compare Latin saevus ("wild, fierce"), Tocharian B saiwe ("itch"), Latvian sievs, sivs; more at sore) or derived from *sīhwaną, in which case *saiwiz is from earlier *saigwiz, Pre-Germanic *seykʷ-.