Re: Word connections - malaise and sit

--- daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> wrote:
>Daniel44 wrote:
>
>> And this brings us onto the English word 'sit'. Is it just a
>> coincidence that the colloquial word 'to shit' is almost
>> identical? After all, you have to sit down in order to ...
>> you get the idea.
>
>Err. "Shit" is a common Germanic word (Sw. _skit_, Ger.
>_scheiss_) which comes from an IE-root meaning 'split,
>separate, divide'.
>
Would that mean that the eminently respectable word "schism" has a black sheep in the family?

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   Tom Pullman

"Dochuala as borb nad légha."

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