Sat
/sæt/noun
Simple past tense and past participle of sit, meaning to be seated or positioned in a seated state.
Did you know?English sat comes from the ancient sit-verb family, ultimately tied to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to sit,” which also gave us words like sinew and session through distant branches of the same root network.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sed-
“to sit, settle, stay”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*sitjaną
“to sit”
Old English
English
sittan
“to sit”
Old English
English
sæt
“sat; sat down”
Middle English
English
sat
“past tense of sit”
Modern English
English
sat
“past tense and past participle of sit”