Etymograph

English

skite

Skite comes from Middle English skit ‘Diarrhoea’, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz ‘excrement’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- ‘to split, to divide’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*skeyd-‘to split, to divide’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*skéydt‘to cut off’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skītaną‘to shit’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skitiz‘excrement’reconstructed
  5. Old Norsec. 800–1350*skitrreconstructed
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500skit‘Diarrhoea’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1958skite

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*skeyd-‘to split, to divide’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*skéydt‘to cut off’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skītaną‘to shit’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skitiz‘excrement’reconstructed
  5. Old Norsec. 800–1350*skitrreconstructed
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500skit‘Diarrhoea’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1958skite

Earliest quotation: 1958, George Desmond Hodnett, Monto (Take Her Up to Monto): “When Carey told on Skin-the-Goat / O'Donnell caught him…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- ‘to split, to divide’

schedule, zest, schism, rescind, schist, rescission, 23 more

through Proto-Germanic *skītaną ‘to shit’

shit, 4 more

Another origin of skite

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kewd-‘to advance, push’uncertain
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skeutaną‘to shoot, dash’reconstructed
  3. Old Norsec. 800–1350skjóta‘to shoot’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*skitenreconstructed
  5. Englishtodayskite

Today it means

noun A contemptible person.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- / skite

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