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Spliss.

split ends; hair breakage, schizotrichia

6 characters1 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʃplɪs/
  1. split ends; hair breakage, schizotrichia

    masculine · no-plural · strong
Where this word comes from

20th century, from Low German Spliss, Spließ, from the nautical verb splissen (“to splice; to fray the ends of ropes and tie them together”). The latter is cognate with Dutch splitsen (“to split”, older also splissen) and related with Proto-Germanic *splītaną, whence regional German spleißen (also used in the nautical sense above), Dutch splijten, English split.

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