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sitten
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
- (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; [...]
- 1810, Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church:
Adjective
sitten (comparative more sitten, superlative most sitten)
- (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.
- a1513, W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155:
- 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.
- 1671, J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15:
Derived terms
- well-sitten
- sitten-up
Etymology 2
From Middle English sitten, equivalent to sit +? -en.
Verb
sitten
- (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;
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
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
- then (when referring to temporal, logical or other order)
- when or whenever (in the expression "sitten, kun")
- used in some expressions for intensifying questions
- ago
- acts as an emphatic modifier for tahansa ... -kin expressions used to mean "whatever", "whoever"...
Preposition
sitten (+ genitive)
- since
See also
- jahka
Anagrams
- sentit, sentti, sentti-
Hungarian
Etymology
sitt +? -en (case suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??it??n]
- Hyphenation: sit?ten
Noun
sitten
- 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)
- 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
- to sit, to be seated
- to sit down
- to settle (of a sore)
- to be located, to be present
- 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
- to sit
Descendants
- English: sit
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sittjan.
Verb
sitten
- to sit
- 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
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sitter
English
Etymology
From Middle English sitter, sittere, syttare, equivalent to sit +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?t?/, [?s???]
- Rhymes: -?t?(?)
Noun
sitter (plural sitters)
- Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
- One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
- It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
- A participant in a séance.
- A broody hen.
- (soccer and snooker, slang) A very easy scoring chance.
- How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!
- 2015, Paul Wilson, Alexis Sánchez sends Arsenal into final after gallant Reading go the distance (in The Guardian, 18 April 2015)[3]
- Aaron Ramsey, a hero last season against Hull, missed a sitter at the end of normal time that would have made the game safe and must have been relieved that his shot against a post from four yards out did not cost his side more dearly.
Derived terms
- babysitter, baby-sitter, baby sitter
- catsitter, cat-sitter, cat sitter
- dogsitter, dog-sitter, cat sitter
- homesitter, home-sitter, home sitter
- housesitter, house-sitter, house sitter
- petsitter, pet-sitter, pet sitter
- puppysitter, puppy-sitter, puppy sitter
See also
- bedsitter
- sit
- sitting duck
Anagrams
- Strite, Tetris, streit, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triest, triset, triste
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Verb
sitter
- present of sitte
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
sitter
- (non-standard since 2012) present tense of sitje
Swedish
Verb
sitter
- present tense of sitta.
Anagrams
- istret, triste
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