different between sess vs jess

English

Alternative forms

• cess

Etymology

Aphetic form of assess.

Verb

sess (third-person singular simple present sesses, present participle sessing, simple past and past participle sessed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To lay a tax upon; to assess.

Noun

sess (plural sesses)

1. (obsolete) A tax; an assessment.

References

• sess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

German Low German

Alternative forms

• söß, söss, soss

Etymology

From Middle Low German ses, from Old Saxon sehs. Compare German sechs, Dutch zes.

Numeral

sess

1. (Low Prussian) six (6)

See also

• Plautdietsch: sass

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sess, from Proto-Germanic *sessaz (“seat”). Cognate with Old English sess (“seat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s?/

  Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

sess m (genitive singular sess, nominative plural sessar)

1. place to sit, seat

   Synonym: sæti

Declension

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian sesso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/

Noun

sess m (plural sessi)

1. gender
2. sex (sexual intercourse)

Derived terms

Related terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sess, from Proto-Germanic *sessaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sedstós. Related to sitte.

Noun

sess m (definite singular sessen, indefinite plural sesser, definite plural sessene)

1. seat
2. rear, back, end

Derived terms

• være tung i sessen

References

• “sess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sess” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse sess, from Proto-Germanic *sessaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sedstós. Related to sitja.

Noun

sess m (definite singular sessen, indefinite plural sessar, definite plural sessane)

1. seat
2. milking stool
3. rear, back, end

Derived terms

• tung i sessen

Synonyms

• (seat): sete, sitjeplass
• (milking stool): mjølkekrakk

References

• “sess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sessaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sedstós.

Noun

sess m (genitive sess, plural sessar)

1. seat

Descendants

References

• sess in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?s, IPA^(key): /d??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English ges, from Middle French gies, from the plural of jet (“throw”), from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus < iactus (“a throwing”), or from jeter (“to throw”), itself from Latin iactare.

Noun

jess (plural jesses)

1. (falconry) A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened.
   • 1486, Juliana Berners, The booke of hauking, huntyng and fysshyng, London, 1566,^[1]

     Haukes haue about theyr legges gesses made of lether moste comonly, some of silke which should no lenger but that the knottes of them should appere in ye myddes of the left hande betwene the longe fynger and the leche fynger bicause the lewnes should be fastened to them with a payre of tyrettes, whiche tyrettes should rest vpon the lewnes and not vpon gesses, for hangyng and fastyng vpon trees when she fleyth […]

   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II,^[2]

     I am that cedar; shake me not too much;

     And you the eagles; soar ye ne’er so high,

     I have the jesses that will pull you down;

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3,^[3]

     […] If I do prove her haggard,

     Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,

     I’ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,

     To pray at fortune.

   • 1686, Richard Blome, The Gentlemans Recreation, Part 2, Chapter 24 “Certain Terms of Art used in Falconry, with an Explanation thereof, Alphabetically set down,” p. 62,^[4]

     Jesses are the short straps of Leather that are fastned to her Legs, and so to the Lease by the Varvils.

Verb

jess (third-person singular simple present jesses, present participle jessing, simple past and past participle jessed)

1. (falconry) To fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk.

Etymology 2

See jet (etymology 2).

Noun

jess (plural jesses)

1. Alternative form of jet (the mineral).
2. Alternative form of jet (the color).

Etymology 3

See just.

Adverb

jess (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of just.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• JSEs, JSSE

Finnish

Interjection

jess!

1. Alternative form of jes

Icelandic

Etymology

From English yes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?

Interjection

jess

1. (informal) yes (exclamation of satisfaction, joy, etc.)