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The word ski even etymologically comes from a split piece of wood. The cognates in German (Scheit) and apparently also Icelandic (skið) and English (shide) actu
by legulere 8y ago
The word ski even etymologically comes from a split piece of wood. The cognates in German (Scheit) and apparently also Icelandic (skið) and English (shide) actually still mean that.
(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skīdą https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...)