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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
- sċītte
- besċītan
- sċītan
Descendants
- Middle English: schit, schyt
- English: shite, shit