English
sitting
Sitting comes from Middle English sittyng.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sittyng
- Englishearliest quotation 1925sitting
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sittyng
- Englishearliest quotation 1925sitting
Earliest quotation: 1925, – 1926 May, (please specify the chapter number): “It's not always easy to get him, and of…”
Formed from sit + -ing
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
Every English word from Middle English sittyng
Today it means
noun A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English sittyng / sitting