Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To part, separate or divide. · To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of. · To pour; to make flow. · To allow to flow or fall.
From Middle English scheden, schede, from Old English scēadan, scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-. See also Irish scian (“knife”), Lithuanian skėsti (“to spread”), ski̇́esti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic цѣдити (cěditi, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”), Old Armenian ցտեմ (cʻtem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit च्यति (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit, sheath.
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- Root classification mention*skey-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionschedenenm
- Inherited-form mentionscēadanang
- Inherited-form mention*skaiþangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skaiþanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionskiedefy
- Cognate mentionscheidende
- Derivation mention*skeyt-ine-pro · to cut, part, divide, separate
- Cognate mentionscianga · knife
- Cognate mentionskėstilt · to spread
- Cognate mentionцѣдитиcu · to filter, strain
- Cognate mentionσχίζωgrc · to split
- Cognate mentionցտեմxcl · to scratch
- Cognate mentionच्यतिsa · he cuts off
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