SEED
This word is connected to a word "sow". Seed is the thing that is being sown.
Old Church Slavonic "сѣмѧ ⱄⱑⰿⱔ (sěmę)" with a final nasal "ę" (en) could be the best explantion of the pronounciation of Latin and Old Prussian word "semen".
Finnish "hieman" could come from "sieman" which would be the same as Polabian and Kashubian: "semą", "semiã" with a final nasal "ą" (an).
SEM-
---> Finnish: siemen
---> Karelian: siemen, šiemen
---> Ludian: šiemeń
---> Livvi: siemen
---> Veps: semen
---> Võro: seemen, seemeq
---> Ingrian: seemen
---> Livonian: sīemgõz
---> Votic: seemee
---> Estonian: seeme
Old Church Slavonic: сѣмѧ ⱄⱑⰿⱔ (sěmę)
East Slavic: сѣмѧ (sěmę)
Polish: siemię
Czech: semeno
Slovak: semeno
Old Prussian: semen
Latin: sēmen, Sēmō
Lithuanian: sėmenis
Lower Sorbian: semje
Bulgarian: се́ме (séme)
Macedonian: семе (seme)
Serbo-Croatian: се̏ме sȅme
Slovene: sẹ́me
Kashubian: semiã
Polabian: semą
Russian: се́мя (sémja)
Belarusian: се́мя (sjémja)
Lithuanian: sėmuo
Oscan: 𐌔𐌄𐌄𐌌𐌖𐌍𐌄𐌝 (seemuneí)
Paelignian: semunu (gen.pl.)
Umbrian: 𐌔𐌄𐌇𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌝𐌀𐌓 (sehmeníar), sehemeniar; 𐌔𐌄𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌉𐌄𐌔 (semenies), sehmenier
HEM-
---> Finnish: hieman (could be from "sieman")
Ancient Greek: ἧμᾰ (hêma)
SAM-
Old Saxon: sāmo
Middle Low German: sāme
Old High German: sāmo
Middle High German: sāme, saume
German: Samen, Same
SOM-
Luxembourgish: Som
ZOM-
Vilamovian: zöma
SIM-
Ukrainian: сі́м'я (símʺja)
Upper Sorbian: symjo
SEK-
Lithuanian: sėkla
Latvian: sēkla
SED-
Old English: sǣd, sēd
Middle English: seed, sede, side
Scots: sede, seide, seid
English: seed
Old Frisian: sēd
Swedish: säd
Saterland Frisian: Säid
Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (manasēþs), 𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (sēþs)
SAT- SAD-
Old High German: sāt
Middle High German: sāt
Middle Low German: sāt
German: Saat
Middle Dutch: saet
Dutch: zaad
Afrikaans: saad
Old Norse: sáð, sæði
Icelandic: sáð
Faroese: sáð
Norwegian: sæd
Old Swedish: sǣþ
Danish: sæd
Old Saxon: sāth, sād
German Low German: Saad
SOT-
Plautdietsch: Sot
SI-
West Frisian: sied
Gutnish: sid
Article created on the 7th of January 2019.