Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sittjan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sitjaną.

Verb

*sittjan[1]

to sit

Inflection

*sitiþi, *sat, *sātun, *setan

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: sittan
- Middle English: sitten
  - English: sit
Old Frisian: sitta
- West Frisian: sitte
Old Saxon: sittian
- Low German: sitten
Old Dutch: sitten
- Middle Dutch: sitten
  - Dutch: zitten
    - Afrikaans: sit
Old High German: sizzen
- Middle High German: sitzen
  - Alemannic German:
    Swabian: sitza
  - Central Franconian: setze
  - Cimbrian: zètzan (suppletive; some conjugations)
  - German: sitzen
  - Luxembourgish: sëtzen
  - Yiddish: זיצן‎ (zitsn)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 51: “PWGmc *[sitʲtʲan]”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 51: “PWGmc *[sitʲtʲan]”