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Old English · adverb

siþþan

Part of speech
adverb
IPA
/ˈsiθ.θɑn/
Syllables
ˈsiθ · θɑn (2 syllables)

siþþan1 · adverb

Senses

  1. afterwards, subsequently

    byþ hwītust corna; hwyrft hit of heofones lyfte, wealcaþ hit windes sċūra, weorþeþ hit tō wætere syððan.

    Hail is the whitest of corns; it is a movement from the heaven’s air, showers of wind stir it, afterwards it turns to water.

    c. 1000, The Rune Poem:
  2. since

  3. ago, since

    Þā on þām eahteoþan ġēare siþþan hēo abbudisse wæs, hēo wæs ġeuntrumod swā swā hēo ǣr witeġode, swā þæt ān ġeswel wēox on hire swūran myċel under ċynnbane...

    Then on the eighth year since she became abbotess, she was sickened as she had previously predicted, as a large tumor grew on her neck under the chinbone....

    late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

siþþan2 · conjunction

Senses

  1. after, since

    Min leofe cild, nis nu todæg se casere on eorþan lifigende þe decius sy genemned, se casere þe þu embe axast, he wæs gefyrn worulde and swiðe fela geara synd nu agane syððan he gewat of þysan life;..

    My dear child, there is not today the emperor living on earth who is named Decius; the emperor whom thou askest about, he lived in the world long ago, and very many years are now past since he departed from this life.

    late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"

Etymology

From an earlier (unrecorded) form *sīþ þon (“subsequent to that”), with contraction and corresponding shortening of long vowel.

Descendants

since, sithen, sithence, sithens

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