An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/setzen

by Friedrich Kluge

setzen, verb, ‘to set, put, place,’ from Middle High German sętzen, Old High German sęzzen, ‘to set, cause to sit’; an Old Teutonic factitive of sitzen. Compare Gothic saljan (whence Italian sagire, French saisir), Anglo-Saxon sęttan, English to set, Dutch zetten, Old Saxon sęttian, Old Icelandic setja, ‘to set.’