Words that come from Proto-Germanic sitjaną

400 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Germanic sitjaną — including set, sitting, sit, onset, offset, outset, setup, subset.

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English (180)

Dutch (38)

Swedish (28)

German (27)

Danish (21)

Luxembourgish (20)

Esperanto (10)

Gothic (10)

Icelandic (7)

Yiddish (7)

Old English (7)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Middle English (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Faroese (3)

Ido (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Japanese (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Russian (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

West Frisian (1)

Low German (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Czech (1)

Italian (1)

Polish (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Gutnish (1)

Chinese (1)

Indonesian (1)

Old Norse (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old Saxon (1)