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Where does “sceard” come from?

sceard (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic skardą, from Proto-Indo-European (s)ḱer- — dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth.

sceard (Old English): a broken piece; shard; gap, cut, notch

Definitions

  1. a broken piece; shard; gap, cut, notch

Ancestry of “sceard”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicskardąnotch; nick
2Proto-Indo-European(s)ḱer-dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth

Words derived from “sceard”

  • shard
  • sherd
  • potsherd
  • shardlike
  • shardy
  • reshard
  • pot-sherd
  • sherd
  • shard
  • scherd
  • scheard
  • schord
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