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sith¹

  • /siːθ/

Rhymes with -iːθ

Where it comes from

From Middle English sith (“journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion”), from Old English sīþ (“journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinþ, from Proto-Germanic *sinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to go, head”). Cognate with Faroese sinn (“time”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs, “path, movement”), Icelandic sinn (“time”). See also send.

noun siths · sithe

  1. obsolete A journey, way. The holy gost before vs glad / ffull softly on his sithe
  2. obsolete One's journey of life, experience, one's lot, also by extension life, lifetime. Christ's sith of sorrow and suffering.
  3. obsolete An instant in time, a point in time or an occasion. Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken their beginning.

sith²

  • /sɪθ/

Rhymes with -ɪθ

Where it comes from

Clipping of sithen; compare German seit (“since”).

conjunction sithe

  1. archaic Archaic form of since.since Therefore we need not fear them, sith Christ is with us; […]

Sith³

  • /sɪθ/

noun Sith · Siths

  1. One of a fictional order of creatures from the Star Wars universe who represent the antithesis and ancient enemies of the Jedi. In him [Garry Cook] was distilled the very essence of the modern football executive – the Nike heritage, the mad expansionism, the sense that a major part of Manchester City's future lay in energy drink retail, and of course the laserlike focus on "the product" that resulted in him occasionally sayi

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