Where does “skīstas” come from?

skīstas (Proto-Balto-Slavic) comes from Proto-Indo-European skidtos, from Proto-Indo-European (s)keyd-.

Ancestry of “skīstas”, step by step

skīstas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European skidtos

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanskidtossplit
2Proto-Indo-European(s)keyd-—

via Proto-Indo-European skoydtos

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanskoydtos—

Words derived from “skīstas”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)keyd- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European skidtos →