slice

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sleyd-“to rend, injure, crumble”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*slītaną“to split, tear apart”
3. Proto-Germanic · derived from*slitjaną
4. Frankish · derived from*slitjan“to split up”
5. Old French · derived fromesclice
6. Middle English · inherited fromsclise
7. English todayslice

From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

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