sitten

• sittin

• Rhymes: -ɪtən

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

sitten

1. (archaic, UK 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; [...]

sitten (comparative more sitten, superlative most sitten)

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

     The tailȝeour 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.

• well-sitten
• sitten-up

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

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.

   • 1593, Michael Drayton, “The Eighth Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], OCLC 1049092723; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London: Privately printed], 1870, OCLC 1230869372, page 64:

     This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.

   • 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;

• ettins, settin', teints, testin'

From siten, formed from se +‎ -ten; the t has doubled likely by contamination from dialectal siittä (which is se, stem si(i)- + -ttä, the same suffix as in että and jotta). Not related to Swedish sedan or Old English siþþan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsitːen/, [ˈs̠it̪ːe̞n]
• Rhymes: -itːen
• Syllabification^(key): sit‧ten

sitten

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

   Maksa sitten verelläsi!

   Then pay with your blood!

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

   Sitten, kun jään eläkkeelle...

   When I retire...

   Lähdemme sitten, kun olet valmis.

   We’ll go whenever you’re ready.

3. used in some expressions for intensifying questions

   entä sitten? ― so what?

   mitä sitten? ― then what?

4. ago

   kauan sitten ― long time ago

   tunti sitten ― one hour ago

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

   Kenelle tahansa sen sitten annatkin, älä anna sitä minulle.

   Whomever you give it to, don't give it to me.

sitten (+ genitive)

1. since

   Emme ole tavanneet sitten viime vuoden.

   We haven't met since last year.

• jahka

• sentit, sentti, sentti-

sitt +‎ -en (case suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃitːɛn]
• Hyphenation: sit‧ten

sitten

1. superessive singular of sitt

From Middle Low German sitten, Old Saxon sittian.

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

1. to sit

• 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 /ə/. 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)

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

From Old Dutch sitten.

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

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: zitten
• Limburgish: zitte

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

From Old English sittan.

sitten

1. to sit

• English: sit
• Scots: sit
• Yola: zit

• “sitten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Proto-West Germanic *sittjan.

sitten

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

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• bisitten

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

• “sitten”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

sitten

1. Alternative form of sizzen