2668 / sea sign, sigh sign

sea sign, sigh sign

sea sign ₁
sigh sign ₂, ₃, ₄, ₅, ₆, ₇

see sign ₈
saugh sign ₉, ₁₀, ₁₁, ₁₂, ₁₃

say sign ₁₄
sough sign ₁₅, ₁₆

sew sign ₁₇
so-so sign ₁₈

These found/constructed kennings, accidental most, after a failed search for a sign of a sigh — a sigh-sign. There were none; only this meander remains. ¶ afterthought.

Hebrew, Asher Relative: asher lo hayyam, cujus est mare; lit.
who to him [is] the sea.
Sign of Genitive
ex “On the Origin and Import of the Genitive Case.” By the Rev. Richard Garnett.
Proceedings of the Philological Society 2:39 (December 12, 1845) : 165-176 (173) : 173 : link
Page 273 l. 7 sigh] sign 1816.
ex Notes (on the text) for Jane Austen. Emma (1816), in R. W. Chapman, ed., The Novels of Jane Austen vol 4 (of 5), second edition (1926) : link
on that indicated page, this —
“Emma made a slight a reply as she could; but it was fully sufficient...”
all the merry-hearted do sigh.
Sign, s. (& v. to mark) a token of any thing
ex R. W. Bamford, The Scripture Dictionary; Or, an Easy Explanation of Words, Selected from The Holy Bible, and The Book of Common Prayer; with Appropriate References... (London, 1832) : 108 : link
p. 147, 1. 11. Whither : Whether B, and so at p. 150, l.25
p. 147, l. 28. knowing. gnawing C.
p. 149, l. 18. Sigh. Sign B, C.
p. 250, l. 16. wander’d : wonder’d B.
p. 151, l. 13. as to the : as the B, as of the C.
p. 151, l. 17. Consequences : Consequence B, C.
p.151, l. 29. Merchand.zing L Marchandizing B.
from “Textual Notes” to The Constant Couple.
A = The First Quarto, 1699.
B = The Third Quarto, 1701.
C = The Comedies of Mr. George Farquhar [1707].
A. C. G. = The Adventures of Covent Garden, 1698.
in Charles Stonehill, ed. Complete Works of George Farquhar. Vol 1 (of 2); (Nonesuch Press, 1930): 363
Central Library, Delhi University copy/scan (via archive.org) : link
found via google books snippet : link
sign sign kite kine

ex Richard Wood Cone. The speaking voice : its scientific basis in music (Boston : Evans Music Co., 1908) : 74
NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link
Pennsylvania State U copy/scan (via google books) : link
Beautiful queen of the summer sky !
Sign of hope in calamity’s gloom !
Sign of the smile that shares the sigh !
Sign of the faith that illumes the tomb !
Majesty flames in the sun — in thee
Beameth the beauty of Deity.

ex Alfred Billings Street, “A Summer Night” in The Poems of... vol. 2 (1867) : 68
U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link
Princeton copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link
Alfred Billings Street (1811-1881), poet, writer (including A Digest of Taxation in the United States (1863)); State Librarian of New York
wikipedia : link
sigh (v.)
mid-13c., sighen, “make a prolonged and more or less audible heavy breath indicative of some emotion,” probably a Middle English back-formation from sighte, past tense of Old English sican “to sigh,” which is perhaps echoic of the sound of sighing. Related: Sighed; sighing.
By 13c. as an expression of grief or trouble in mind; by mid-14c. to express love-longing. From 1640s as “be sorry, be sorrowful” (sighful “sorrowful” is attested from c. 1600). Of the wind or trees in the wind by 1757.
etymon online : u>link
“...but a scout that don’t see sign must n’t say sign.”
ex William Gilmore Simms. Woodcraft; or Hawks about the Dovecoat : A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution (1854, 1882) : 447
google books : link
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), pro-slavery poet, novelist, politician and historian
wikipedia : link
“...and by their disposition upon the ground enable us to mark out with some approach to certainty the line of the fault which bounds the band to the northward. In Saugh-Hill Burn itself they afford specimens... There are many exposures of the same bed south and east of the farmstead of Littlelane...”
one of several saughs (all hills) in
Charles Lapworth, “The Girvan Succession,” Part I. Stratigraphy (read June 7, 1882). The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 38 (1882) : 537-664 (Discussion 664-666) : 613
google books link
Fig. 25. — Section across the N.W. face of Saugh Hill. : link
Charles Lapworth (1842-1920)
wikipedia : link
saugh
species of sallow or willow...
...glides along the soughs and slaes (1859)
from Joseph Wright, ed., The English Dialect Ditionary Vol. 5. R – S (1904) : link (google books)
Ther saugh I many another wonder storie,
The whiche me list nat drawen to memorie.
past tense of see, here from
Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight’s Tale,” 2073-2074 The Canterbury Tales (ca 1387-1392)
see also Section 21. “The Saugh or Willow Tree. Its Nativity, Soil, Situation, Purposes, Value, and Seasoning.” in
The Forester’s Guide and Profitable Planter, Etc. (Third Edition, 1836), by Robert Monteath, Forester to His Majesty
google books : link
and even tho’ unseen other than this fragment —
“There are some parts of Scotland where it would be impossible to find a saugh for miles that had not a grassy mound before it, telling a bloody tale.”
Nancy Mitford, Highland Fling (2021)
“...but a scout that don’t see sign must n’t say sign.”
William Gilmore Simms, op sit
sough
“a rushing or murmuring sound as of wind, water, or the like, esp. one of a gentle or soothing nature.”
b. a canting or whining manner of speaking, especially in preaching or praying
2. a deep sigh or breath
a boggy or swampy place; a small pool
a small gutter for draining off water; a drain, a sewer, a trench
3 a subterranean drain to carry off the water in a mine; an adit of a mine
with away to breathe one’s last; to die.
ex OED : link
and, from Wright, his English Dialect Dictionary : link —
Hence Soughless, adj. silent, noiseless
a slumber, disturbed sleep.
a small channel or gutter...
the blade of a plough.
sough (v.)
“to make a moaning or murmuring sound,” Middle English swouen, from Old English swogan “to sound, roar, howl, rustle, whistle,” from Proto-Germanic *swoganan (source also of Old Saxon swogan “to rustle,” Gothic gaswogjan “to sigh”), from PIE imitative root * (s)wagh- (compare Greek ēkhō, Latin vagire “to cry, roar, sound”).

etymonline : link
“Dispatch” phrases

Mark
Measure
Sew
Sign
Steal
Tear
Tie
Unload nambar adi, adeiyālam pōdu
ala, alanthu pōdu.
thei.
keiyoppam wei.
kalavu sey.
kilichi pōdu.
katu
(pāram) yarrakku.

ex “Iṅgē vā!”; or the Sinna Durai’s Pocket Tamil Guide, by A(lastair). M(ackenzie). Ferguson. Fourth edition. (Columbo : 1902) : 29 : link
so-so sign
David A. Stewart and Jennifer Stewart, Barron’s American Sign Language: A Comprehensive Guide to ASL 1 and 2 (2021) : 682 : link
this is evidently a later edition of
David A. Stewart. American Sign Language, The Easy Way (1998) : 68
borrowable at archive.org : link

some random other’n —

sal-² Dirty, gray. Suffixed form *sal-wo-. Sallow¹, from Old English salu, salo, dusky, dark, from Germanic *salwa-.

sal(i)k- Willow. A derivative of sal-². 1. Variant form *salk-,. Sallow2, from Old English sealh, willow, from Germanic suffixed form *salh-jōn-.

(s)wāgh- To resound. 1. Sough, from Old English swōgan, to resound, from Germanic *swogan. 2. Suffixed form *wāgh-ā. Catechize, from Greek ēkhē, sound. 3. Suffixed form *wāgh-ōi-. Echo, from Greek ēkhō, noise, echo.

these other’n all ex Calvert Watkins, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots (Third edition, 2011)

note to self —
The way this was constructed — bricolated, brick-o-lated — I could not see its formal destinations. There were only the parts, a growing collection of. Where normally I might have made something of the sources, that was not the case here. The eight lines at top didn’t require the sources below, other than to anchor them in the available written/printed/digitally-indexed world. The composition is closer to (my idea of) painting or music than it is to writing. And yet I value the bibliographic delvings, some form of due diligence and, being at sea, sea anchor too.

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