different between mitten vs sitten

English

Etymology

From Middle English myten, mitaine, from Old French mitan, miton, mitaine (“mitten”, literally “half-glove”) (Modern French mitaine), from Frankish *mitamo, *mittamo (“half”), superlative of *mitti (“midpoint”), from Proto-Germanic *midjô, *midj? (“middle, center”), from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos (“between, in the middle, center”). Cognate with Old High German mittamo, metemo (“half, in the middle”), Old Dutch medemest (“midmost”), Old English medume (“average, moderate, medium”). More at mid, middle.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?tn?/
• (Southern England, Western New England) IPA^(key): /?m??n?/
• Rhymes: -?t?n

Noun

mitten (plural mittens)

1. A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.
2. A cat's or dog's paw that is a different colour from the main body.

   Synonym: sock

3. (colloquial, dated, as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover.

   to give someone the mitten; to get the mitten

4. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A boxing glove.

Translations

Verb

mitten (third-person singular simple present mittens, present participle mittening, simple past and past participle mittened)

1. (transitive) To dress in mittens; to put a mitten on.

Anagrams

• titmen

German

Pronunciation

Adverb

mitten

1. In the middle.

Related terms

• inmitten
• zumitten

Further reading

• “mitten” in Duden online

Swedish

Noun

mitten

1. definite singular of mitt

English

Alternative forms

• sittin

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English siten, seten, from Old English seten, ?eseten, past participle of sittan (“to sit”). Cognate with Dutch gezeten, German gesessen.

Verb

sitten

1. (archaic, Britain dialectal) past participle of sit; alternative form of sat
   • 1810, Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church:

     For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]

Adjective

sitten (comparative more sitten, superlative most sitten)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Seated.
   • a1513, W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155:

     The tail?eour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.

   • c1560, A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 38:

     He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.

2. Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
   • 1671, J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15:

     Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours.

Derived terms

• well-sitten
• sitten-up

Etymology 2

From Middle English sitten, equivalent to sit +? -en.

Verb

sitten

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of sit
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

     Such merimake holy saints doth queme,

     But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme.

   • 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, Book I, Canto IV:

     While as they sitten soft in the sweet rayes

     Or vitall vest of the lives generall,

   • 1738, Rev. John Whalley

     Then listen, Thenot, to my mournful lay,

     As wee these willows sitten here emong;

Anagrams

• ettins, settin', teints, testin'

Finnish

Etymology

From siten, formed from se +? -ten; the t has doubled likely by contamination from dialectal siittä (standard Finnish siitä). Likely not related to Swedish sedan or Old English siþþan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sit?en/, [?s?it??e?n]
• Rhymes: -it?en
• Syllabification: sit?ten

Adverb

sitten

1. then (when referring to temporal, logical or other order)

2. when or whenever (in the expression "sitten, kun")

3. used in some expressions for intensifying questions

4. ago

5. acts as an emphatic modifier for tahansa ... -kin expressions used to mean "whatever", "whoever"...

Preposition

sitten (+ genitive)

1. since

See also

• jahka

Anagrams

• sentit, sentti, sentti-

Hungarian

Etymology

sitt +? -en (case suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??it??n]
• Hyphenation: sit?ten

Noun

sitten

1. superessive singular of sitt

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German sitten, Old Saxon sittian.

Verb

sitten (past singular seet, past participle seten, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to sit

Conjugation

• The plural present indicative sittt is usually spelled sitt but also sitt't.

Usage note:

• The conjugation given is for a dialect which merges all open-mid and close-open vowels and apocopates /?/. As such it is lacking many distinctions which are grammatical in other dialects.

Basic forms in Münsterland:

• infinitive: sitten ((to) sit)
• third person singular present indicative: sitt (sits)
• first and third person singular past indicative: satt (sat)
• third person plural past indicative: sätten (sat)
• past participle: siäten (sat)

References

• G. Ungt: Twee Geschichten in Mönstersk Platt. Ossmanns Jans in de Friümde un Ossmanns Jans up de Reise. Münster, 1861.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sitten

Verb

sitten

1. to sit, to be seated
2. to sit down
3. to settle (of a sore)
4. to be located, to be present
5. to reside, to live

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zitten
• Limburgish: zitte

Further reading

• “sitten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “sitten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English sittan.

Verb

sitten

1. to sit

Descendants

• English: sit

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sittjan.

Verb

sitten

1. to sit
2. to be situated, to live

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• bisitten

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: sitten
  • Dutch: zitten
  • Limburgish: zitte

Further reading

• “sitten”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012