bheid-

bheid-
To split; with Germanic derivatives referring to biting (hence also to eating and to hunting) and woodworking.
Derivatives include bite, bitter, and fission.
1.
a. beetle1, bite, from Old English bītan, to bite;
b. tsimmes, from Old High German bīzan, bizzan, to bite. Both a and b from Germanic *bītan.
2. Zero-grade form *bhid-.
a. bit2, from Old English bite, a bite, sting, from Germanic *bitiz;
b. (i) bit1, from Old English bita, a piece bitten off, morsel; (ii) bitt, from a Germanic source akin to Old Norse biti, bit, crossbeam. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *bitōn-;
c. suffixed form *bhid-ro-. bitter, from Old English bit(t)er, “biting,” sharp, bitter.
3. O-grade form *bhoid-.
a. bait1, from Old Norse beita (verb), to hunt with dogs, and beita (noun), pasture, food;
b. abet, from Old French beter, to harass with dogs. Both a and b from Germanic *baitjan.
4. bateau, boat; boatswain, from Old English bāt, boat, from Germanic *bait-, a boat (< “dugout canoe” or “split planking”).
5. Nasalized zero-grade form *bhi-n-d-. -fid, fissi-, fissile, fission, fissure, vent2, from Latin findere, to split.
 
[Pokorny bheid- 116.]

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