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SeatEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Perhaps a variant of Sait.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗seatEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”). Noun sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”). Cognates * Middle Dutch gesaete * Old High German gisazi (modern German Gesäß)
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No. American Heritage treats the political sense as a later seating-based development in legislative assemblies.
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