shoad

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*skey-“to cut, divide, separate”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*skaidą“separation, distinction”
3. Old English · inherited fromġescēad“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”
4. Middle English · inherited fromshode
5. English todayshoad

From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.

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