Heresy (English); from...

<-- haeresis (n - Latin) - "sect"... later heresy

<-- hairesis (n - Greek) - taking, receiving; a choice, selection; a purpose; a system of
principles; [philosophy, religion] a school of thought, sect; [Christianity] a heresy
<-- haireo/hairo (v - A.Greek) - to take, grasp, seize; to win, gain; to convict, win a
conviction; (figurative) to grasp with the mind, understand; to take for onesself,
choose, select; to prefer
--> helor (n - A.Greek) - booty, spoils
<-- herreyo (Proto-Hellenic)
<-- *ser- (PIE) - to take, grasp, seize; [synonym: *selh]
steal, plunder; booty [synonym: *kelp]
<-- *selh- (PIE) - to take
--> [con]sulo (v - P.Latin) - consult, seek counsil, take
counsel from; deliberate; reflect upon, think over; give
thought to; have regard for; look after the interest of; be
mindful of, pay attention to (someone's safety, dignity,
reputation, etc.)

*ser- (PIE) - to take, seize; steal, plunder (0)

selwa (n - P.Celtic) - possession (as hairo) <--
serwa (n - P.Celtic) - theft, plundering <--
servus (n - Latin) - slave <--
serb (n - O.Irish) - theft <--
*ser- (PIE) - to flow (1)
serum (Latin) - whey <--
oros (A.Greek) - whey; blood serum <--
--> horme (v - A. Greek) <--
violent pressure, assult, force; first movements, beginning, start;
eagerness, struggle, effort; violence, passion, appetite
hormone (n - English) <--
*ser- (PIE) - to guard (2)
--> rhuomai (v - A.Greek) - to protect, guard; to rescue, deliver; keep danger away; thwart, curb; set
free, ransom, redeem; pay for
*ser- (PIE) - to bind, tie together; to thread; unite (3)
*sero (Latin) - to sow, plant; (people) beget, produce; (fig.) establish, propagate, spread <--
assert (English) <--
eiro (A.Greek) - tie, join, fasten, string together; insert; to tell <--
rhetor (n. A.Greek) - orator; politician; attorney; judge; rhetorician <--
ritorikos (n - Greek) - concerning public speaking or oration <--
rhetoricus (n - Latin) <--
rethorik (n - Mid.English) <--
rhetoric (n - English) <-
sors (n - Latin) <--
(Ancient Latin) anything used to determine chances, lots; casting or drawing of lots, a
decision by fate or allotment; an oracular response (as many written on lots); fate,
destiny, chance, fortune, condition; share or part; capital bearing interest, principal of
an investment; rank, class, order;
... (Medieval Latin) partitioning of an inheritance by lot; share in an estate; the estate or
holding; easements attached to a property; realm
suart (Dalmatian) - ... <--
sorcery (English) <--
sorte (Old French) - ... <--
sort (English) <--
*swerk (PIE) <--
*sarkiz (P.Germanic) - shirt, armour, hauberk <--
*sarki (P.W-Germanic) <--
serce/sirce/syrce/serc (Old English)<--
sark, shirt, shift, smock, tunic, corselet, coat of mail
serk/sark/serke (Middle English) <--
+ battle-sark (war armor)
+berserk ("bear-shirt" berserker)
+sarkit ("clothed" or "dressed")
shirt (English) <--
*serwos (P.Latin) - "to guard" and "to bind" <--
servus (Latin) - slave <--
sermo (n - Latin) <--
a conversation, discussion; rumor, diction, speech, talk, discourse; a
language, manner of speaking; a sermon
sermon (English) <--
from "sarwa" (n - Gothic) - armor <--
from "saro" (n - Old High German) - war equipment <--
from "sorvi" (n - Old Norse) - sword <--
from "searu" (n - Old English) <--
machine; device, contrivance; deceit, stratagem
sierwan (v - Old English) <--
to plot, devise (negative connotation); (poetic) to arm

From PIE (*kelp-)

[synonym to *ser-] meaning "to steal"
*hlefana (v - P.Germanic) - to steal & *hleftuz (n - P.Germanic) - theif
*klepo (v - P.Latin) - to steal --> clepo (v - Latin) - to steal; to listen secretly
*klepto ( - P.Hellenic) - to steal -->
--> klepto (v - A.Greek) - steal, filch; cheat; mislead, keep secret; disguise, conceal
--> cleptomaniac (n - English)
--> klops (n - A.Greek) - theif
(((synonym: leistes- robber, bandit; pirate, bucaneer; revolutionary, insurrectionist, guerrilla
<-- from lais- booty, spoil
<-- from leia- booty, plunder; the act of plunder; stolen property; herd, flock
<-- from PIE leh2w- to seize, profit)))
Kuklops ( - A. Greek)
<-- actually from Pkuklops (n - P.Helenic) cattle theif [Pku (=cattle) + Klops (=thief)]
~~ > after loss of *peku (=livestock), misunderstood to mean...
Kuklos (=wheel, circle) + Ops (=eye) ==> "Cyclops"
Epilepsy (English)
from Ancient Greek "epi-" (upon) + "lambanein" (take hold of)
the latter from Ancient Greek "laphura" (spoils taken in war, pillage, booty)
... itself from Sanskrit "labhate" (to take, seize)*
... which may have also given us:
Lithuanian "lobis" (treasure, wealth) ... and ...
Old Latin "labos" --> Latin "labor" --> English "labor
... ultimately from the PIE *leb- (profit, gain advantage)

* also...
+ catch sight of, meet with, find
+ gain possession of, obtain, receive, recover
+ gain the power of (doing something), succeed in
+ possess, to have
+ to perceive to know, understand, learn, find out,
+ (passive) be taken, caught, met, found, got, or obtained
+ to be allowed to
+ to follow, result in
+ to be comprehended by
+ to cause
+ cause to suffer

Seize (English)... earlier "seise"

... from Middle English "seisen" (kidnap, abduct, take captive; grasp, snatch; seize, take; grant ownership,
entitle; put, set)
... from Old French "seisir" (hold firmly; take by force)
(...which also gave us Middle English "seisin"
... from Early Medieval Latin "sacire" (to seize)
... from Old Low Frankish *sakjan (to sue, bring legal action)
... from Proto-Germanic *sakona (a la "sako")
(... which gave us Old English "sacian" (to strive, brawl))
... from P-G "sakana" (a quarrel, lawsuit, matter)
(... which gave Old English "sacan" (to quarrel, claim by Law,
accuse))
(... and also Old Saxon "sakan" (to accuse))
... ultimately from PIE *seh2g- (to seek out)
*seh
--> P-G "sokijana --> P-W-G "sokijan"
--> P-G "sako" (affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter)
--> P-W-G "saku"
--> Old English "sacu" (cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute)
--> Middle English "sake" (sake, cause")
--> Modern English "sake"
& --> Old English "socn" (inquiry, prosecution)
& --> Old English "secan" (to look for; visit; attack by military force)
--> Middle English "seken" (to seek"
--> Modern English "seek"
--> Latin "sagio" (sense quickly or keenly; perceive acutely with
the intellect)
--> Latin "praesagio" - to forebode
--> English "preage"
--> Latin "sagax" - of quick perception, having acute senses, keen-
scented; intellectually quick, keen, acute, shrewd
--> English "sagacious" (coined 1600~1610)
--> Latin "saga"

*seh1p- (to notice, try, research)

--> Proto-Italic *sapio
--> Latin "sapio" - have taste; to taste of; (fig.) to have good taste, discernment,
sensibility, discression, prudence, wisdom; (fig.) to know, understand; (Early Mideval
Latin) to know how to do, to be able to do.
--> Spanish "saber" (to know)
--> via creole --> English "savvy"
--> also from Latin "sapidus" (delicious,wise) Vulgar Latin "sapius" - wise
--> Old French "sade" (delicious)/"savie" (wise)/"sage" (wise)
--> a la the latter --> Middle English "sage"
--> Modern English "sage"
--> Proto-Germanic "*sebo" - sense, taste, perception; mind, understanding
--> Old English "sefa" - (poetic) spirit, heart, mind ("Ealle tha gemoniath modes fusne
sefan to sithe" :: "All these things urge him who is eager of spirit to travel." -- The
Seafarer)

(... & --> A.Greek "sophos" - wisdom)