Where does “slītan” come from?

slītan (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic slītan, from Proto-Germanic slītaną, from Proto-Indo-European sleyd-.

slītan (Old English): to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to...

Definitions

  1. to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to...

Ancestry of “slītan”, step by step

slītan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic slītan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicslītanto tear apart
2Proto-Germanicslītanąto tear apart
3Proto-Indo-Europeansleyd-—

via Proto-Germanic *slītan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*slītan—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanskleyd-—

Words derived from “slītan”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sleyd- →Every word from Proto-Germanic slītaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic slītan →