English

home-sit

From home + sit, formed by analogy to babysit.

A compound of home + sit

Proto-Germanic *haimaz ‘home, village’

Proto-West Germanic *haim ‘home’

Old English hām ‘home’

Middle English hom ‘home’

English home

Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

Proto-Germanic *sitjaną ‘to sit’

Proto-West Germanic *sittjan ‘to sit’

Old English sittan ‘to sit’

Middle English sitten ‘to sit’

English sit

Today it means

verb Synonym of house-sit.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / home-sit