Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. · Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line. · To share; to divide. · To leave.
Divided. · Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others. · Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso. · Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”). Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Middle Irish slis (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
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- Borrowed-form mentionsplittendum
- Borrowed-form mentionsplittengml
- Derivation mention*splittjangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*splītangmw-pro · to split
- Derivation mention*splītanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionsplitteda
- Cognate mentionsplietennds
- Cognate mentionspleißende
- Derivation mention*(s)pley-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionysplettenm · split
- Cognate mentionspeldang
- Cognate mentionspaltangoh
- Cognate mentionslismga · splinter
- Cognate mentionspaliailt
- Cognate mentionpůlcs
- Cognate mentionрасплитатиcu
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