Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family. · The heir to a throne. · A guardian. · A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
From Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, from Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion, from Frankish *kīþō, *kīþ, from Proto-Germanic *kīþô, *kīþą, *kīþaz (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *geye- (“to split open, sprout”), same source as Old English ċīþ (“a young shoot; sprout; germ; sprig”), Old Saxon kīth (“sprout; germ”), Old High German kīdi (“offshoot; sprout; germ”). See also French scion and Picard chion. Doublet of chit.
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