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Where does “withsit” come from?

withsit (English) comes from Middle English withsitten, from Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan.

withsit (English): To resist, oppose, be set against or in...

Definitions

  1. To resist, oppose, be set against or in...

Ancestry of “withsit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishwithsittento resist
2Middle Englishsittento sit
3Old Englishsittanto sit
4Proto-West Germanic*sittjan—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan →