sitten
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.35 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
Example Sentences
- "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; [...]"
- "The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill."
- "He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will."
- "Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours."
- "Such merimake holy saints doth queme, But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme."
- "This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire."
Etymology
From Middle English siten, seten, from Old English seten, ġeseten, past participle of sittan (“to sit”). Equivalent to sit + -en (past participle). Cognate with Dutch gezeten, German gesessen.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
sittin (alternative)
more sitten (comparative)
most sitten (superlative)
Phrases
well-sitten
sitten-up