Scheit

From Middle High German schīt, Old High German scīt (“log of wood”). Cognate with West Frisian skīd, Old Norse skíð (“plank; billet; ski”), Old English sċīde, English shide, Ancient Greek σχίζα (skhíza, “splinter”), Latvian skaida (“chip”), Lithuanian skëdrà.[1] From Proto-Germanic *skīdą. Doublet of Ski.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaɪ̯t/

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• Homophone: scheid

Scheit (originally) n or (now also) m (strong, genitive Scheits or Scheites, plural Scheite or (alternatively in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Scheiter)

1. log, billet, stick (of firewood)

• Most often used in the pleonastic compound Holzscheit.
• Originally neuter, but the masculine is now a widely attestable variant.

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