Etymograph

English

shide

Shide comes from Middle English schyd ‘plank, board, beam, splinter, chip’, from Old English sċīd ‘thin slip of wood, shingle, billet’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- ‘to cut’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*skeyt-1‘to cut’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skīdą1‘log, plank, tile’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*skīd1‘piece of wood, billet, board’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sċīd1‘thin slip of wood, shingle, billet’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500schyd1‘plank, board, beam, splinter, chip’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1566shide1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English shide
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1566, Accounts of St. Dunstan's: “For a tall shyde and nayle for the same…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*skeyt-Wiktionary, English shide‘to cut’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skīdąWiktionary, English shide‘log, plank, tile’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*skīdWiktionary, English shide‘piece of wood, billet, board’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sċīdWiktionary, English shide‘thin slip of wood, shingle, billet’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500schydWiktionary, English shide‘plank, board, beam, splinter, chip’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1566shideWiktionary, English shide. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1566, Accounts of St. Dunstan's: “For a tall shyde and nayle for the same…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- ‘to cut’

shed, 2 more

through Proto-Germanic *skīdą ‘log, plank, tile’

ski, skid

through Middle English schyd ‘plank, board, beam, splinter, chip’

shud

Today it means

noun 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.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “shide”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- / shide

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