Noun: split
| Singular | split |
| Plural | splits |
Sample Sentences
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It destroys the class system and exploitation; it heals the split in man's nature and the crippled, one-sided development of the individual. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:]
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The kernels split in shelling, known as splits, form a fifth grade of shelled Virginia peanuts. [1929, United States Tariff Commission, Agricultural products and provisions, page 1334:]
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He’s got a nasty split.
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In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32
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[I]t would be a rare split in that it would be unlikely to result in an armchair tick for any birders, living or dead. [2017 June 26, Australian Birdlife, Carlton, Victoria, page 76, column 1:]
Nouns inflected like split
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
2. Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Middle Irish slis (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”). See: Middle English Nouns '
ysplett', Old English Nouns '
speld'.
Verbs referencing "split"
German Nouns
Splitt, Irish Nouns
spliota.