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Siting the Body
footnote 36

Etymological roots are indicated by the sign ç.

Language groups are as follows: SKT: Sanscrt; E: Egyptian; HB: Hebrew; GK: Greek; L: Latin; AS: Anglo Saxon; ME: Middle English; OHG: Old High German; G: German; OFR: Old French; FR: French; IT: Italian; ICL: Icelandic; N: Nordic; SW: Swedish.

Site = locality, situation, place where a thing is set down or fixed; L: situs, from sinere = to permit, to put, place; GK: ktisis = foundation; SKT: kshiti = abode, from kshi = to dwell (situate, situation - L: situare = locate, place; situs = site); sizar 'a poor university scholar that attends others for his maintenance' - from size and assize = fixed quantity, dimension or ration of bread set down; ME: assisen = to appoint; OFR: asise = sitting at table, tax, impost; asseoir = sit at table, place, provide; L: assidere = to sit at or near, to act as assessor to a judge [ad = at or near + sedere = sit: `one who sits beside' another]; cf. assess, assist, assign, asset [ad = up to + satis = what is enough: cf. satiate, satisfy]; seize = lay hold of, grasp, comprehend; cf. under-stand = to stand-under in the sense of supporting and upholding - yet, also to take possession of; OHG: sazzan, AS: settan, settlan = settle down, fix, sink to rest, subside; setel = seat; sahat = settle a quarrel, make peace, appease, reconcile; to sit = rest on the haunches, perch, brood; from çSED = sit, SKT: sad; GK: sedyomai; L: sedere = I sit (saddle, set, seat, settle, preside, reside, residue, sedate, sedentary, sediment; siege [chair, set, throne], seize, size); L: sed- = scatter, sow, apart (seed, sedition = a going-apart, seduce = a leading-apart).