shed

shed
\ \ English has two distinct words shed. The verb [OE] originally meant ‘divide, separate, split’ (a 14th-century religious poem paraphrased Genesis with ‘the sun to shed the day from the night’), and the modern range of senses, ‘give off, drop’, did not begin to emerge until the Middle English period. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skaithan, which also produced German and Dutch scheidenseparate’. This was derived from a base *skaith- ‘divide, split’, source also of English ski and probably sheath. Shedhut’ [15] may be an alteration of shade (but the shed of watershed is of course a noun use of the verb shed).
\ \ Cf.SHEATH, SKI; SHADE

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