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Where does “seten” come from?

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

Ancestry of “seten”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishsetena set, shoot, slip, branch; a nursery,...
2Old Englishsittanto sit
3Proto-West Germanic*sittjan—

Words derived from “seten”

  • sitten
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