scid

See also: SCID

Middle English

Noun

scid

(Early Middle English) Alternative form of schyd

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃiːd/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *skīd (“log; tile”).

Noun

sċīd n (nominative plural sċīd)

a thin piece of wood; shingle; billet; shide

Descendants

Middle English: schyd, chyde, scheyde, schide, schudde, schyde, schyyd, shide, shyde, syde, szhide; sid, scid
- English: shide (obsolete)
- Middle Scots: schide, schyde

Etymology 2

Unknown. Compare Old Norse skeið (“a race; course”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą, *skaiþą, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, divide, separate”).

Noun

sċīd ?

a course
Synonym: ryne

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