Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Having the properties of a slice knot.
To cut into slices. · To cut with an edge using a drawing motion. · To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. · To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
That which is thin and broad. · A thin, broad piece cut off. · An amount of anything. · A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.
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