Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo slit; tear or rip up. · To wear away (clothes).
From Middle English sliten, from Old English slītan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- (“to cut, trim”). Cognate with North Frisian slitten (“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten (“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schleißen (“to trim”), Swedish slita (“to rip, tear”). Doublet of slit. More at slice.
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