sith

[ sith ]

adverb, conjunction, prepositionArchaic.

Origin of sith

1
First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English siththa, dialectal variant of siththan, originally, sīth thām “after that, subsequently to that” (compare German seitdem “since, ever since”), equivalent to sīth “subsequently,” akin to Gothic seithus (adjective) “late,” Old Norse sīth (adverb) “late, in the evening,” German seit (preposition and conjunction) “since” + thām, dative of demonstrative pronoun, i.e., “to that”; see the1

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sith

/ (sɪθ) /


adverb, conjunction, preposition
  1. an archaic word for since

Origin of sith

1
Old English siththa, short for siththan since

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