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Reconstruction:Old English/scite

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skīta-, *skītaz, *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”). Related to Middle Low German schite (German Low German Schiet), Old Dutch skīta (Middle Dutch schitte, Dutch schijt), German Scheiße, Scheisse, Danish skid, Icelandic skítur, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Norwegian Nynorsk skit, skitt, Swedish skit.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃiː.te/

Noun

sċīte f

shit, faeces

Related terms

Descendants

Middle English: schit, schyt
- English: shite, shit

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