Etymograph

English

sith

Sith comes from Middle English sith ‘journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sent- ‘to go, head’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sent-1‘to go, head’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sinþaz1‘journey, way, path’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*sinþ1‘journey, way, path’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sīþ1‘journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sith1‘journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion’
  6. Englishearliest quotation a. 1450sith1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English sith
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: a. 1450, Secretum Secretorum in Ashmole:: “Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sent-Wiktionary, English sith‘to go, head’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sinþazWiktionary, English sith‘journey, way, path’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*sinþWiktionary, English sith‘journey, way, path’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sīþWiktionary, English sith‘journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sithWiktionary, English sith‘journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion’
  6. Englishearliest quotation a. 1450sithWiktionary, English sith. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: a. 1450, Secretum Secretorum in Ashmole:: “Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sent- ‘to go, head’

sense, send, sentence, consent, consensus, sentiment, sensitive, sensor, sensation, scent, sensible, resent, sensual, sentient, assent, sensibility, sensuous, sentience, sensu, 33 more

through Old English sīþ ‘journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion’

since

Today it means

noun A journey, way.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sith”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sent- / sith

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