Old English · verb
sittan
- Part of speech
- verb
- Verb class
- strong class V
- IPA
- /ˈsit.tɑn/
- Syllables
- ˈsit · tɑn (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- sit
Meaning
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to sit
Þonne iċ būgendre stefne styrme, stille on wīcum sittað hnīgende.
When I shout with bending voice, the still men sit bowing in dwellings.
10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 8: -
to stay, remain
An. DCCCLV Hēr hǣþene men ǣrest on Sċeapiġġe ofer winter sǣtan...⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare [Aþelwulf cing] ferde to Rōme mid myċelre weorðnesse ⁊ þǣr wæs XII mōnoð wuniġende, ⁊ him þā hāmweard fōr ⁊ him þā Carl Francna cing his dohtor ġēaf him tō cwēne, ⁊ æfter þām tō his lēodum cōm...
Year 855 In this year the heathens stayed on Sheppey over the winter for the first time...And in the same year [King Athelwulf] went to Rome with much honor, and stayed there for twelve months. And them he went home and King Carl [the Bald] of the Franks gave him his daughter as a queen, and after that Athelwulf returned to his people.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Conjugation
All forms (16)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *sédyeti Proto-Germanic *sitjaną Proto-West Germanic *sittjan Old English sittan From Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sédyeti. Cognates Cognate with Old Frisian sitta (West Frisian sitte), Old High German sizzen (German sitzen), Old Saxon sittian, Dutch zitten, Old Norse sitja (Icelandic sitja, Faroese sita, Swedish sitta), Gothic (sitan). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit सीदति (sīdati), Old Armenian նիստ (nist, “sitting”…
Descendants
sit
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