Where does “sit” come from?

Sit comes from Old English sittan, from Proto-Germanic sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European sed-, meaning to sit or settle.

sit (English): To be in a position in which the upper body is...

Definitions

  1. To be in a position in which the upper body is...

Ancestry of “sit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishsittento sit
2Old Englishsittanto sit
3Proto-West Germanic*sittjanto sit

Words derived from “sit

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan