Proto-Indo-European

*sed-

‘to sit’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

136 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *sed-, most familiar first.

• set ← setten ← settan ← *sattjan ← *satjaną
• president ← praesidēns ← praesideō ← sedeō ← *sedēō
• size ← syse ← cise ← assidēre ← sedeō
• sell ← selle ← selle ← sele ← sella
• sit ← sitten ← sittan ← *sittjan ← *sitjaną
• sitting ← sittinge ← sittende ← *sitjandz ← *sitjaną
• seat ← sete ← sǣte ← sæti ← *sētiją
• method ← methode ← methodus ← μέθοδος ← ὁδός
• session ← sessiō ← sedeō ← *sedēō ← *sed-éh₁-ye-ti
• chair ← chayere ← chaiere ← cathedra ← κᾰθέδρᾱ
• possession ← possessio ← possideō ← sedeō ← *sedēō
• resident ← residēns ← resideō ← sedeō ← *sedēō

More words from *sed-

• settle
• assess
• nest
• possess
• siege
• obsession
• niche
• saddle
• exodus
• reside
• subsidy
• sedan
• residue
• residual
• sediment
• nye
• insidious
• possessive
• sedentary
• dissident
• beset
• prasad
• cathode
• soot
• sedative
• setter
• obsess
• assessor
• anode
• sedate
• chaise
• presidio
• sate
• presidente
• sessile
• presidium
• besiege
• seance
• ersatz
• salo
• assize
• nidal
• polyhedron
• nias
• dissidence
• sellar
• nidus
• sitz
• sederunt
• praesidium
• sedes
• residencia
• surcease
• prasada
• overset
• mistle
• assiette
• sitten
• supersession
• edaphic
• cochair
• chairside
• sedentism
• ashet
• assident
• assiduate
• chairward
• chairlike
• chairless
• chairship
• chairness
• chairhood
• chairwise
• coprodeum
• edaphology
• edaphophyte
• edaphosaurus
• edaphologic
• edaphological
• edaphism
• edaphoecological
• epanodos
• esodic
• exodos
• exodist
• exodium
• forset
• foreset
• hexecontahedron
• holohedral
• hydrogode
• insidiate
• insidiator
• insession
• kathisophobia
• nide
• nidify
• nidicolous
• nidation
• nidiform
• nidology
• obsidional
• odology
• parodos
• paredros
• phallodeum
• presidial
• presidentiable
• prosodion
• presidentiary
• rhynchodaeum
• saeter
• sejant
• sedent
• setten
• sedilium
• sellary
• sitzkrieg
• sitzmark
• supersedeas
• synedrion
• tanist
• urodeum
• withset

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed-