scheden

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

scheden

  1. plural of schede

Synonyms

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English scēadan, scādan, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɛːdən/

Verb

scheden (third-person singular simple present schedeth, present participle schedynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative schedde, past participle sched)

  1. To divide or separate in two:
    1. To part or comb (hair).
    2. To cast off; to set apart.
    3. To leave; to depart.
  2. To break up; to divide into pieces:
    • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
      [Y]if þer be any þing þat knytteþ and felawshippeþ hym selfe to þilke mydel poynt [of a circle] it is constreyned in to symplicite. þat is to seyn in to [vn]moeueablete. and it ceseth to ben shad and to fletin dyuersly.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1460–1500, The Poems of Robert Henryson
      The northern wind had shed the misty clouds from the sky;
    1. To disperse; to sprinkle around.
    2. To separate out; to scatter.
  3. To send out liquid:
    1. To pour out; to spill out.
    2. To secrete or discharge (liquid)
    3. To cause to discharge.
  4. To radiate, cast or give off (light)
  5. To fall; to be falling (of weather or hair)
  6. (rare) To shield (from); to keep away.
  7. (of sight, rare) To make weak or nonfunctional.

Conjugation

Conjugation of scheden (weak in -de or strong class 7)
infinitive (to) scheden, schede
present tense past tense
1st-person singular schede schedde, sched
2nd-person singular schedest scheddest, schede, sched
3rd-person singular schedeth schedde, sched
subjunctive singular schede schedde1, schede1
imperative singular —
plural2 scheden, schede schedden, schedde, scheden, schede
imperative plural schedeth, schede —
participles schedynge, schedende sched, scheden, schede, ysched, yscheden, yschede

1 Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

  • English: shed
  • Scots: shed
  • Yola: shet (preterite)

References

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