slice

slice
\ \ [14] Slice comes from Old French esclicesplinter’, a derivative of the verb esclicierreduce to splinters, shatter’. This in turn was acquired from Frankish *slītjan, a descendant of prehistoric Germanic *slītanslit’ (source of English slit and possibly of slat and slate).
\ \ English originally took over the word’s French meaning, but this had died out by the end of the 16th century. The modern sense ‘piece cut from something’ is first recorded in the early 15th century.
\ \ Cf.SLIT

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