Noun: sit
Sample Sentences
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The increasing scope of the disaster was relayed in short, terse sentences whose brevity does not conceal the unfolding nightmare. […] In mid-afternoon at 1600: “Sit is getting worse; need help badly,” “have considerable number of wounded that are unable to evacuate.” [2012, Gail Shisler, For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith:]
Nouns inflected like sit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sed-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
4. Proto-Indo-European *sédyeti
5. Proto-Germanic *sitjaną
6. Proto-West Germanic *sittjan
7. Old English sittan
8. Middle English sitten
9. English sit
10. From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with West Frisian sitte, Low German sitten, Dutch zitten, German sitzen, Swedish sitta, Norwegian Bokmål sitte, Norwegian Nynorsk sitja, Danish sidde, Faroese sita, Icelandic sitja; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сиде́ть (sidétʹ). See: Old English Nouns '
sittan', Faroese Nouns '
sita', Icelandic Nouns '
sitja'.
Verbs referencing "sit"
English Nouns
nest.