forsittan

== Old English == === Etymology === From for- +‎ sittan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /forˈsit.tɑn/ === Verb === forsittan to delay, defer, obstruct, besiege to mis-sit, be absent from, neglect (transitive) to lose by sitting, fail to go and do, stop up (intransitive) to remain unmoved ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: forsitten === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forsittan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.