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Old English secan "visit, inquire, pursue," influenced by Old Norse soekja, both from Proto-Germanic *sokjanan (cf. Old Saxon sokian, Old Frisian seka, Middle Dutch soekan, Old High German suohhan, German suchen, Gothic sokjan), from PIE *sag- "to track down, to trace" (cf. Latin sagire "to perceive quickly or keenly," sagus "presaging, predicting," Old Irish saigim "seek"). The modern form of the word as uninfluenced by Old Norse is in beseech. Related: Sought; seeking.