Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. · A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability. · A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network. · The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)koréh₂ Proto-Germanic *skarō Proto-West Germanic *skaru Old English sċearu Middle English schare English share From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.
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