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Middle English
Noun
scid
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of schyd
Old English
Pronunciation
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 (Early Middle English)
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