wegsetzen

Word type: weg verb
Based on: setzen

Perfect (spoken past): hat weggesetzt

Preterite (written past): setzte weg

Meanings

to (go) sit elsewhere, away from

("sich+Acc wegsetzen (von)" - Moving one's seat/seating spot away from where it was before. Think of a noisy group at the movies. Can also be used non-reflexively, so you can "wegsetzen" someone else, but you do need a direct object.)

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Word Family

Root: *sed-

The core idea of this root was

sitting

Today, the majority of members of the family are about a somewhat broader sense of “putting down”.
Here’s a little (incomplete) overview:

to sit, seat (“sitting”)
saddle (“seat”)
to set (“putting down”)
settle (“sitting down for camping”)
soil (“where your settlement is”)
session (“the sitting”)
seance (“the sitting”)
siege (“sitting in front”)
sediment (“dust settling”)
possess (“sit on”)
obsess (“sit on, occupy”)
sedate, sedative (“settling”)
assist, assistent (Originally, a person sitting next to the judge)
assess (see “assist”, originally an assistant responsible for determining fines)
size (see “assess”)
cathedral (Originally, it was a scholar’s chair, the root is the “thed”- part)
chair (comes from cathedral)

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