sith

[sith]

adverb, conjunction, preposition Archaic.

since.

Origin of sith

before 950; Middle English; Old English siththa, dialectal variant of siththan, orig., sīth thām after that, subsequently to that, equivalent to sīth subsequently (akin to Gothic seithus, Old Norse sīth- late, German seit since) + thām, dative of demonstrative pronoun, i.e., “to that” (see the¹); compare Old Norse sīthan sith

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Examples from the Web for sith

Contemporary Examples of sith

Only one other Star Wars film has earned a PG-13 rating, the 2005 prequel Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
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Rich Goldstein
January 3, 2015

Historical Examples of sith

They said it was a great matter, sith I had risked mine own life.
Clare Avery
Emily Sarah Holt
Sith Alwyn vails of himself, it is thine, by might and by right.
The Last Of The Barons, Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Why, I reckon it cannot be over nine days sith thine were writ.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest
Emily Sarah Holt
Here's twentye groates of white moneye, Sith thou will have it of mee.
A Book of Ballads, Volume 3
Various
But what do I mean to speak of these, sith my purpose is only to talk of our own woods?
Elizabethan England
William Harrison

British Dictionary definitions for sith

sith

adverb, conjunction, preposition

an archaic word for since

Word Origin for sith

Old English siththa, short for siththan since

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Word Origin and History for sith

adv., conj., prep.

"since" (obsolete), Middle English, reduced from Old English siððan "then, thereupon; continuously, during which; seeing that," from *sið þon "subsequent to that," from sið "after," from Proto-Germanic *sith- "later, after" (cf. Old Saxon sith "after that, since, later," German seit "since," Gothic seiþus "late"), from PIE *se- (2) "long, late" (see soiree).