Where does “withsitten” come from?

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

withsitten (Middle English): to resist

Definitions

  1. to resist

Ancestry of “withsitten”, step by step

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

Words derived from “withsitten”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan →Every word from Old English sittan →Every word from Middle English sitten →