English

kitset

From kit + set.

A compound of kit + set

Middle Dutch kitte ‘a wooden vessel made of hooped staves’

Middle English kyt

English kit

Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

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Proto-Germanic *satjaną ‘to set’

Proto-West Germanic *sattjan ‘to set’

Old English settan ‘to set’

Middle English setten ‘to seat’

English set

Today it means

noun A kit; a set of components to be assembled into a structure.

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