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1810, Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church:
For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]
From siten, formed from se + -ten; the t has doubled likely by contamination from dialectal siittä (which is se, stem si(i)- + -ttä, the same suffix as in että and jotta). Not related to Swedishsedan or Old Englishsiþþan.
“sitten”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Note: This conjugation is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.
The plural present indicative sittt is usually spelled sitt but also sitt't.
Usage note:
The conjugation given is for a dialect which merges all open-mid and close-open vowels and apocopates /ə/. As such it is lacking many distinctions which are grammatical in other dialects.
Basic forms in Münsterland:
infinitive: sitten ((to) sit)
third person singular present indicative: sitt (sits)
first and third person singular past indicative: satt (sat)
third person plural past indicative: sätten (sat)
past participle: siäten (sat)
References
G. Ungt: Twee Geschichten in Mönstersk Platt. Ossmanns Jans in de Friümde un Ossmanns Jans up de Reise. Münster, 1861.