Slice
/slaɪs/noun
A thin, flat piece cut from something; also, to cut something into thin pieces.
Did you know?“Slice” is not an occult word itself, but it belongs to an old Germanic family of cutting-words that turned violence into everyday vocabulary.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sleyd-
“to cut, split, or tear apart”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*slītaną
“to split, tear, or cleave”
Old English
English
slīcian
“to cut or split”
Middle English
English
slicen
“to cut into thin pieces”
Modern English
English
slice
“a thin piece cut from something”