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seem

Word History

Date of Origin 12^th c.

Originally, seem meant ‘be suitable’ (a meaning preserved in the derived seemly (13^th c.)). It was borrowed from the Old Norse verb soema ‘conform to, honour’. This was derived from the adjective soemr ‘fitting’, a descendant of the prehistoric base *sōm- (to which English same is distantly related). The sense ‘appear to be’ emerged in the early 13th century.