Old English · noun
scite
Normalised sċite
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong i-stem
- IPA
- /ˈʃi.te/
- Syllables
- ˈʃi · te (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- shitshitefaeces
scite1 · noun · feminine
Senses
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shit, faeces
Declension · strong i-stem
scite2 · verb · inflected form
Senses
-
inflection of sċītan:; first-person singular present indicative
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inflection of sċītan:; second-person singular preterite indicative
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Inflected form of sċītan
All forms (3)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skiti, 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.
Descendants
shit, shite
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