Where does “sitteth” come from?

Sitteth comes from Middle English sitten, Old English sittan, and Proto-Germanic sitjaną, tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root sed- meaning to sit or settle.

sitteth (English): third-person singular simple present indicative...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative...

Ancestry of “sitteth”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-eth"goeth, "playeth; used to create ordinal numbers...
2Middle English-ethUsed to form the third-person singular present...
3Old English-eþThird person singular present indicative ending of class 1 weak verbs
4Proto-Germanic-þi
5Proto-Indo-European-ti
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ti