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shive

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Noun — A slice, particularly of bread.

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Etymology

A parallel form of sheave, coming from Middle English schyve, from Proto-West Germanic *skībā, from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, presumably passing through an Old English *sċīfe (though this is not attested before the Middle English period). It is a cognate of German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slic...

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