[se], pron. dem. and article, the: m. nom., [79], [84], [86], [87], [90], [92], [102], etc.; fem, seó, [66], [146], etc.; neut. þät;—relative: se (who), [1611], [2866]; se þe (he who), [2293]; seó þe (she who), [1446]; se þe (for seó þe), [1345], [1888], [2686]; cf. [1261], [1498]; (Grendel's mother, as a wild, demonic creature, is conceived now as man, now as woman: woman, as having borne a son; man, as the incarnation of savage cunning and power); se for seó, [2422]; dat. sg. þam (for þam þe), [2780].

[secce]. See [sacu].

[secg], st. m., man, warrior, hero, spokesman (secgan?): nom. sg., [208], [872], [2228], [2407], etc.; (Beówulf), [249], [948], [1312], [1570], [1760], etc.; (Wulfgâr), [402]; (Hûnferð), [981]; (Wîglâf), [2864]; acc. sg. sinnigne secg (Grendel's mother, cf. [se]), [1380]; dat. sg. secge, [2020]; nom. pl. secgas, [213], [2531], [3129]; dat. pl. secgum, [490]; gen. pl. secga, [634], [843], [997], [1673].

[a]secg], st. f., sword (sedge?): acc. sg. secge, [685].

[secgan], w. v., to say, speak: 1) w. acc.: pres. sg. gode ic þanc secge, [1998]; so, [2796]; pres. part. swâ se secg hwata secgende wäs lâðra spella (partitive gen.), [3029]; inf. secgan, [582], [876], [881], [1050]; pret. sg. sägde him þäs leánes þanc, [1810]; pret. sg. II. hwät þu worn fela ... sägdest from his sîðe, [532].—2) without acc inf. swâ we sôðlîce secgan hýrdon, [273]; pret. sg. sägde, [2633], [2900]—3) w. depend. clause: pres. sg. ic secge, [591]; pl. III. secgað, [411]; inf. secgan, [51], [391], [943], [1347], [1701], [1819], [2865], [3027]; gerund. tô secganne, [473], [1725]; pret. sg. sägde, [90], [1176]; pl. sägdon, [377], [2188]; sædan, [1946].

â-secgan (edicere), to say out, deliver: inf. wille ic â-secgan suna Healfdenes ... mîn ærende, [344].

ge-secgan, to say, relate: imper. sg. II. ge-saga, [388]; þät ic his ærest þe eft ge-sägde (that I should, after, tell thee its origin), [2158]; pret. part. gesägd, [141]; gesæd, [1697].

[sefa], w. m., heart, mind, soul, spirit: nom. sg., [49], [490], [595], [2044], [2181], [2420], [2601], [2633]; acc. sg. sefan, [278], [1727], [1843]; dat. sg. sefan, [473], [1343], [1738].—Comp. môd-sefa.

ge-[segen], st. f., legend, tale: in comp. eald-ge-segen.

[segl], st. n., sail: nom. sg., [1907].