sith
/siːθ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The holy gost before vs glad / ffull softly on his sithe"
- "Christ's sith of sorrow and suffering."
- "Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken their beginning."
- "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."
- "His land mortgag'd, he, sea-beat in the way, / Wishes for home a thousand siths a day."
- "Therefore we need not fear them, sith Christ is with us; […]"
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.