different between sunder vs excide

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sunder, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special”), Dutch zonder (“without”), German sonder (“special, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).

Adjective

sunder (comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.

Derived terms

• sunderling
• sunderly

Etymology 2

From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundr?n? (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry.

Verb

sunder (third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)

1. (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
2. (intransitive) To part, separate.
   • 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9

     Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —

     Such are we now.
3. (Britain, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Derived terms

Related terms

• sundry

Translations

Noun

sunder (plural sunders)

1. a separation into parts; a division or severance
   • 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4

     He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.

     I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder

     And went with half my life about my ways.

Derived terms

• sundrous

See also

• sunder tree

Anagrams

• Durens, Dusner, drusen, nursed

Old English

Alternative forms

• sundor
• synder

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sundraz, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sun.der/

Adverb

sunder

1. apart, separate, private, aloof, by one's self

Synonyms

• ?ed?ledl??e

Derived terms

• onsundrum (“singly, separately, apart: privately: especially, in sunder”)
• sunderanweald m (“monarchy”)
• sunderfolgoþ m (“private office”)
• sunderfr?od?m, sunderfr?ols m (“privilege”)
• sunderl?pes (“separately”)
• sunderm?lum (“separately, singly”)
• sunderm?d f (“private meadow”)
• sunderst?w f (“special place”)

Related terms

• ?sundran, ?sundrian (“to divide, separate, disjoin, sever; distinguish, except. asunder”)
• ?syndrung f (“division”)
• sundrian (“to separate, sunder”)

See also

• sundor
• synder

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sunder”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sundor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

English

Etymology

From Latin excidere, excisum; ex (“out”) + caedere (“to cut”). See concise, and compare excise (“to cut off”).

Verb

excide (third-person singular simple present excides, present participle exciding, simple past and past participle excided)

1. (transitive) To cut off.

Latin

Verb

exc?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of exc?d?