ḥzy / Semitic roots

Central (Common?) Semitic, to see.

chazan, from Mishnaic Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic ḥazzān, superintendent, cantor, from Akkadian ḫazannu, administrator, mayor, perhaps from earlier *ḥāziyānum, overseer, active participle of Proto-Akkadian verb *ḥazāyum, to see.