scheden

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

scheden

1. plural of schede

Synonyms

• schedes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sced, schaden, schedde, schede, scheed, scheede, schode, shede, shedyn, sheede, shode, ssede
• (early) shædenn, scheaden, sheaden

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;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. To disperse; to sprinkle around.
   2. To separate out; to scatter.
3. To send out liquid:
   1. To pour out; to spill out.
      • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

        swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   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, schede1
3rd-person singular	schedeth	schedde, sched
subjunctive singular	schede	schedde2, schede2
imperative singular		—
plural3	scheden, schede	schedden, schedde, scheden, schede
imperative plural	schedeth, schede	—
participles	schedynge, schedende	sched, scheden, schede, ysched, yscheden, yschede

¹ Later replaced by the 1st-/3rd-person singular or schedest.
² Later replaced by the indicative.
³ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Related terms

• sched
• scheder
• schedynge
• toscheden

Descendants

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

References

• “shēden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.