share
/ʃɛə/ · noun
Meaning
- A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
- A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
- A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
- The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
- The sharebone or pubis.
- To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- To have or use in common.
- To divide and distribute.
- To tell to another.
- To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.
- The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
- To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
- A surname.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.
- skor(Icelandic)→
- Schar(German)→
- schare(Dutch)→
- skar(stq)→
- *(s)ker-(ine-pro)→
- *skarō(gem-pro)→
- *skaru(gmw-pro)→
- sċearu(ang)→
- schare(Middle English)→
- share (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, inh, der, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
schare(Middle English)sċearu(ang)*skaru(gmw-pro)*skarō(gem-pro)*(s)ker-(ine-pro)skar(stq)schare(Dutch)Schar(German)skor(Icelandic)շեյրել(Armenian)ရှယ်ယာ(Burmese)share(Chinese)些牙(Chinese)sharen(German)scèra(Italian)シェア(Japanese)xxerja(Maltese)chârer(Norman)skare(Norwegian Nynorsk)scaro(Old High German)skari(Old Norse)*karō(Proto-Italic)*skora(Proto-Slavic)пошарить(Russian)шарить(Russian)šer(Serbo-Croatian)SKL(Tagalog)แชร์(Thai)kärṣt-(Tocharian A)kärst-(Tocharian B)
Descendant words
- շեյրել(Armenian) (bor)
- ရှယ်ယာ(Burmese) (bor)
- share(Chinese) (bor)
- 些牙(Chinese) (bor)
- schare(Dutch) (cog)
- Schar(German) (cog)
- sharen(German) (bor)
- scèra(Italian) (bor)
- シェア(Japanese) (bor)
- xxerja(Maltese) (bor)
- chârer(Norman) (der)
- skare(Norwegian Nynorsk) (cog)
- scaro(Old High German) (cog)
- skari(Old Norse) (cog)
- *karō(Proto-Italic) (cog)
- *skora(Proto-Slavic) (cog)
- пошарить(Russian) (der)
- пошарить(Russian) (der)
- шарить(Russian) (der)
- шарить(Russian) (der)
- šer(Serbo-Croatian) (bor)
- SKL(Tagalog) (der)
- แชร์(Thai) (bor)
- kärṣt-(Tocharian A) (cog)
- kärst-(Tocharian B) (cog)
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