Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16 and 38 inches in circumference.
From Middle English schyd, schide, schyde (“plank, board, beam, splinter, chip”), from Old English sċīd (“thin slip of wood, shingle, billet”), from Proto-West Germanic *skīd, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, plank, tile”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-, *skey- (“to cut; divide; separate; split”). Cognate with North Frisian skeid (“billet of wood”), German Scheit (“log, piece of wood”), Swedish skid (“wooden shoe, sole, skate”), Icelandic skíð (“a billet of wood”). Doublet of ski.
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