different between insee vs gers

English

Etymology

From in- +? see, or taken as a back-formation of inseeing, itself a loan-translation of German Einsehen (“recognition, observation”). Compare Old English ons?on (“to look on, observe, regard, take notice of”). More at insight.

Verb

insee (third-person singular simple present insees, present participle inseeing, simple past insaw, past participle inseen)

1. To see into; to observe acutely.
   • 1992, Victoria Harris, The incorporative consciousness of Robert Bly:

     First, moving from his internal region outwards to other internal regions, the speaker insees the "tear inside the stone."

2. To have or gain insight into; to empathise with or come to fully understand one's point of view.
   • 1990, Sandra Gilbert, Acts of attention: the poems of D.H. Lawrence:

     This process of intuitional knowledge is strikingly analogous to the process of inseeing (Einsehen) Rilke described in his letters. I love inseeing. Can you imagine with me how glorious it is to insee...

3. To inspect.

Anagrams

• Eisen, Niese, Seine, see in, seein, seein', seine, senie

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rs/
• Hyphenation: gers
• Rhymes: -?rs

Etymology

Unknown.

Adjective

gers (comparative gerser, superlative meest gers or gerst)

1. (Rotterdam) cool, nice

Icelandic

Noun

gers

1. indefinite genitive singular of ger

Lithuanian

Verb

gers

1. third-person singular future of gerti
2. third-person plural future of gerti

Middle Dutch

Noun

gers n

1. Alternative form of gras

Middle English

Noun

gers

1. Alternative form of gras

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• gres

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gras?.

Noun

gers n

1. grass

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: gäärs

  Sylt: G?rs

• Saterland Frisian: Gäärs
• West Frisian: gers, gjers, jers

Samogitian

Adjective

gers

1. good

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gers, gres, from Proto-Germanic *gras?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reH?- (“to grow, become green”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s/

Noun

gers n (plural gerzen, diminutive gerske)

1. (Clay) grass

Alternative forms

• gjers (Wood)

Derived terms

• gersmoanne

Further reading

• “gers”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011