Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. · A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. · A food preparation similar in shape to a shard of, e.g., glass, generally made from a sheet of a hard product that is then shattered to produce smaller pieces. · A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion. · To break (something) into shards. · To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår). The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.
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- Inherited-form mentionshardenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċeardang · a broken piece; shard
- Inherited-form mention*skardgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skardągem-pro · notch; nick
- Derivation mention*(s)ker-ine-pro · to cut
- Cognate mentionschairdsco · shard
- Cognate mentionéchardefr · splinter
- Cognate mentionschaardenl · tear; notch; fragment
- Cognate mentionSchartede · notch
- Cognate mentionskarðnon · notch, hack
- Cognate mentionskårda
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