英语词汇“Indo-European root: skei-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: skei-

释义

‌‌skei-
To cut, split. Extension of sek-.
Derivatives include science, nice, shit, schism, sheath, ski, and esquire.

1. shin¹, from Old English scinu, shin, shinbone (< "piece cut off");
2. chine, from Old French eschine, backbone, piece of meat with part of the backbone. Both a and b from Germanic suffixed form *ski-nō‑.
science, scilicet, sciolism; adscititious, conscience, conscious, nescience, nice, omniscient, plebiscite, prescient, from Latin scīre, to know (< "to separate one thing from another," "discern.").
Suffixed zero-grade form *skiy-enā‑. skean, from Old Irish scīan, knife.
Extended root *skeid‑.
1. 1. shit; gobshite, from Old English *scītan, to defecate;
  2. skate³; blatherskite, from Old Norse skīta, to defecate;
  3. shyster, from Old High German skīzzan, to defecate. (i)-(iii) all from Germanic *skītan, to separate, defecate.
2. suffixed zero-grade form *sk(h)id-yo‑. schism, schist, schizo-, from Greek skhizein, to split;
3. nasalized zero-grade form *ski-n-d‑. scission; exscind, prescind, rescind, from Latin scindere, to split.
Extended root *skeit‑.
1. 1. shed¹, shoddy, from Old English scēadan, to separate, from Germanic *skaith‑, *skaidan;
  2. sheath, from Old English scēath, sheath (< "split stick"), perhaps from Germanic *skaith‑.
2. ski, from Old Norse skīdh, log, stick, snowshoe, from Germanic *skīdam;
3. o-grade form *skoit‑. écu, escudo, escutcheon, esquire, scudo, scutum, squire, from Latin scūtum, shield (< "board").
Extended root *skeip‑.
1. sheave², from Middle English sheve, pulley (< "piece of wood with grooves");
2. skive¹, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse skīfa, to slice, split;
3. shiver², from Middle English shivere, scivre, splinter, possibly from a Low German source akin to Middle Low German schever, splinter. a-c all from Germanic *skif‑.

[Pokorny skē̆i‑ 919.]

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