Noun: sith
Sample Sentences
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The holy gost before vs glad / ffull softly on his sithe [15th c., “Thomas Indie [Thomas of India]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 340, line 85:]
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Christ's sith of sorrow and suffering.
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Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken their beginning. [a. 1450, Secretum Secretorum in Ashmole:]
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The foolish man thereat woxe wondrous blith, / As if the word so spoken, were halfe donne, / And humbly thanked him a thousand sith, / That had from death to life him newly wonne. [1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 3, canto X, stanza 33:]
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His land mortgag'd, he, sea-beat in the way, / Wishes for home a thousand siths a day. [1598, Joseph Hall, Quid placet ergo?, line 79:]
Nouns inflected like sith
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
From Middle English sith (“journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion”), from Old English sīþ (“journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinþ, from Proto-Germanic *sinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to go, head”). Cognate with Faroese sinn (“time”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs, “path, movement”), Icelandic sinn (“time”). See also send. See: Middle English Nouns '
sith', Faroese Nouns '
sinn', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃', Icelandic Nouns '
sinn'.