shide
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shide¹
- /ʃaɪd/
Sounds like shied · Rhymes with -aɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle English schyd, schide, schyde (“plank, board, beam, splinter, chip”), from Old English sċīd (“thin slip of wood, shingle, billet”), from Proto-West Germanic *skīd, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, plank, tile”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-, *skey- (“to cut; divide; separate; split”).
Cognate with North Frisian skeid (“billet of wood”), German Scheit (“log, piece of wood”), Swedish skid (“wooden shoe, sole, skate”), Icelandic skíð (“a billet of wood”). Doublet of ski.
noun shides
- A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16 and 38 inches in circumference. For a tall shyde and nayle for the same house, jd,
Shide²
Where it comes from
From Old English scēad (“boundary, division”), referring to the stream that ran through it.
proper noun
- A southern suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
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