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Where does the word "sigh" come from?
"Sigh" as a verb meaning "to make a prolonged breath" comes from Old Englishsican, "to make a prolonged breath as an expression of grief," appearing around 1250. The meaning "to make a prolonged breath as an expression of love-longing" appears around 1350. By the 1640s it could also mean "to be sorry." The noun meaning "an audible respiration" derives from it and appears in the late 1300s. The OED lists 14 different meanings for the word - 2 nouns and 12 verbs. An obsolete meaning for the verb is "to desire (something)." The earliest written use of the verb is in 1377, in Langland's Piers Plowman, while the earliest such use of the noun is in 1381, in the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. Links.NightCafe Image Source