slita
Swedish
verb-irr
Definitions
- to wear (out)
- to tear (something from someone's hands)
- to labour, to work (really hard)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish slīta, slita inherited from Old Norse slíta inherited from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (tear apart, split, cut up, tear) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *slaid-, *sled-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*slaid-, *sled-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- slite English
- *(s)leyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *skleyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *slaid- Proto-Indo-European
- *slaid-, *sled- Proto-Indo-European
- slite Norwegian Bokmål
- *slaitijaną Proto-Germanic
- *slitjaną Proto-Germanic
- *slītaną Proto-Germanic
- slitvarg Swedish
- varg Swedish
- slita Norwegian Nynorsk
- slitan Old English
- slītan Old English
- sliten Middle English
- slíta Old Norse
- slide Danish
- slíta Icelandic
- slīzan Old High German
- slíta Faroese
- *slītan gmw-pro
- slitan Old Saxon
- slita Old Swedish
- slīta, slita Old Swedish
- slit Westrobothnian
- *slītan Frankish