Lemizh / English dictionary
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zdnàk.
to make lice
Etymology
< NLem zgank‑a
< LMLem, MLem zgdank‑yr ‘bug, vermin’
< OLem zgdank‑
< PLem *zgdanx‑ ‘scatter’, nasal-infix present of
< PIE *skedh₂‑ ‘splinter, scatter’
This word replaced le‑a – cognate with Eng louse – as the word for lice during a prolonged epidemic in NLem times.
doublet of skàqk.
Cognates
Gk σκίδνημι ‘disperse’, Lit kedù ‘burst’