Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle. · A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill. · A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose. · A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
(of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have. · To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning. · To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing. · To protect or support with a skid or skids.
From Middle English *skid, from Old Norse skíð (“a billet of wood, a beam or plank on which something rests”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, clapboard”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey-t-, *skey- (“to split, divide, separate”). Cognate with English shide, from Middle English schyd, schyde, schide (“plank, beam”), German Scheit (“piece of wood, log”). Doublet of ski.
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- Root classification mention*skey-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skidenm
- Derivation mentionskíðnon · a billet of wood, a beam or plank on which something rests
- Inherited-form mention*skīdągem-pro · log, clapboard
- Derivation mention*skey-t-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionshideen
- Cognate mentionschydenm
- Cognate mentionScheitde · piece of wood, log
- Doublet mentionskien
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