seat

seat · noun, verb¹

1. Old English · inherited fromsǣte“house”
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sed-“to sit”
3. Proto-Germanic · derived from*sētiją“seat”
4. Old Norse · derived fromsæti“seat”
5. Old English · inherited fromsǣte
6. Middle English · inherited fromsete
7. English todayseat

From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”). Noun sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”). Cognates * Middle Dutch gesaete * Old High German gisazi (modern German Gesäß)

Seat · proper noun²

Perhaps a variant of Sait.

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