The story
- Old English · inherited fromwiþsettan“to resist; condemn”
- Middle English · inherited fromwithsetten“to resist, set against”
- English todaywithset
From Middle English withsetten (“to resist, set against”), from Old English wiþsettan (“to resist; condemn”), equivalent to with- (“against”) + set.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.