sittest

«sittest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you sit — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you sit

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«sittest» means «you sit», a form of «sit»: To sit is to rest your body on a seat or on the ground, with your weight on your bottom. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou sittest» = «you sit».

examples

• And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. (Torah DEU.11.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee. (Torah DEU.23.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. (Torah DEU.6.7, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «sit», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 4, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
• But Thou, O LORD, sittest enthroned for ever; and Thy name is unto all generations.
• When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well him that is before thee;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sittest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.