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Feature in the typology of certain languages
In linguistic typology, split ergativity is a feature of certain languages where some constructions use ergative syntax and morphology, but other constructions
Split_ergativity
Pattern relating to the subject and object of verbs
All known ergative languages show ergativity in their morphology, and a small portion also show ergativity in their syntax. The ergative–absolutive alignment
Ergative–absolutive_alignment
Grammatical and/or semantic category of nouns
Santillana Ediciones Generales. ISBN 958-704-368-5. Dixon, R. M. W. (1994). Ergativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 83–94. Crespo Cantalapiedra
Animacy
Concept of sentence structure in linguistics
nominative–accusative and ergative–absolutive coding, a phenomenon called split ergativity. In fact, there are relatively few languages that exhibit only ergative–absolutive
Nominative–accusative alignment
Nominative–accusative_alignment
Grammar of the Marathi language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Maharashtra, India
Kashi (2005). Marathi. Lincom Europa. Legate, Julie Anne (2014). "Split ergativity based on nominal type" (PDF). Lingua. 148: 183–212. doi:10.1016/j.lingua
Marathi_grammar
Type of morphosyntactic alignment in linguistic typology
Dixon, R. M. W. (1979). "Ergativity". Language. 55 (1): 59–138. doi:10.2307/412519. JSTOR 412519. Dixon, R. M. W. (1994). Ergativity. Cambridge University
Active–stative_alignment
Type of morphosyntactic alignment in linguistic typology
language. Ergative–absolutive language Nominative–accusative language Split ergativity Blake, Barry J. (2001). Case. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Tripartite_alignment
Professor of linguistics
linguistics expert consultant for the 2016 film Arrival. Coon works on ergativity, split ergativity, case and agreement, nominalization, field methodology, and collaborative
Jessica_Coon
Grammar of the Kurdish language
Yaghnobi and Kurdish are ergative, with respect to both case-marking and verb-agreement. There are general descriptions of ergativity in Kurdish, as well as
Kurdish_grammar
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kashmir
Kashmir, over half the population of that territory. Kashmiri has split ergativity and the unusual verb-second word order. Since 2020, it has been made
Kashmiri_language
Grammatical relationship between arguments
‘syntactic’ vs. ‘morphological’) ergativity (e.g. Comrie 1978; Dixon 1994): many languages have surface ergativity only (ergative alignments only in their coding
Morphosyntactic_alignment
Grammar of the Georgian language
grammar has many distinctive and extremely complex features, such as split ergativity and a polypersonal verb agreement system. Georgian has its own alphabet
Georgian_grammar
Western Iranian language
study of ergativity in Balochi.' M.A. thesis: School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Farrell, Tim. 1995. Fading ergativity? A study
Balochi_language
Linguistic phenomenon
verbs and the objects of transitive verbs. However, in languages with split ergativity based on tense or aspect—such as Middle Persian and Kurdish—the alignment
Quirky_subject
Oldest attested Mayan language family member
limit this pattern of ergative alignment to sentences in completive aspect, classical Mayan does not show evidence of split ergativity. Its spoken form, the
Classic_Maya_language
Neo-Aramaic varieties
Syntax of Aspectually Conditioned Split-ergativity. In Alana Johns, Diane Massam, and Juvenal Ndayiragije (eds.) Ergativity: Emerging issues. Dordrecht: Springer
Suret_language
Order of syntactic constituents
levels of animacy, sometimes giving way to an accusative system (see split ergativity). Most languages with a high degree of morphological marking have rather
Word_order
Branch of linguistics
patient[example needed]. Yet other languages behave ergatively only in some contexts (this "split ergativity" is often based on the grammatical person of the
Linguistic_typology
Indo-Aryan language
Development of periphrastic tense/voice/mood constructions Syntax Split ergativity More complex agreement system Gujarati is then customarily divided
Gujarati_language
Indo-Aryan language
indicating clause constituents, verbal affixation marking number, split ergativity, and the presence of passives and voice. The language is non-tonal
Sonha_language
Eastern Iranian language
of the Afghans Pashto is a subject–object–verb (SOV) language with split ergativity. In Pashto, this means that the verb agrees with the subject in transitive
Pashto
Cariban language spoken in South America
shows split ergativity, with one set of verbs presenting ergative case, and the other, a mixed system. Wayana is a special case in split ergativity, since
Wayana_language
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Bangladesh and India
called an ergative case, and has also led to Sylheti being classified as an ergative–absolutive language. The particular system of split ergativity that Sylheti
Sylheti_language
and is also among the 22 scheduled languages of India. Kashmiri has split ergativity and the unusual verb-second word order. Although Kashmiri was traditionally
Culture_of_Kashmir
Grammatical case
and O and the oblique for A (an absolutive–ergative alignment). Because of this split (see split ergativity), neither "nominative" nor "absolutive" is
Direct_case
Northwestern Iranian language
Vafsi is a split ergative language: Split ergativity means that a language has in one domain accusative morphosyntax and in another domain ergative morphosyntax
Tati_language_(Iran)
Dormant Northwest Caucasian language
intransitive sentence and the direct object of a transitive sentence. Split ergativity plays only a small part, if at all. It is highly agglutinating and polysynthetic
Ubykh_language
Mayan language of Chiapas, Mexico
Coon, Jessica (2010). "Complementation in Chol (Mayan): A Theory of Split Ergativity" (electronic version). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved
Chʼol_language
Grammar of the Pashto language
Pashto[1] is an S-O-V language with split ergativity. Adjectives come before nouns. Nouns and adjectives are inflected for gender (masc./fem.), number
Pashto_grammar
Subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family
a highly eccentric ergative alignment and split ergativity (based on word order). In contrast with nearly entirely of the ergative languages of the world
Nicobarese_languages
Type of synthetic language
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Agglutinative_language
According to Payne, it's clear what happened here: Rushani once had a split-ergative alignment, as is common in the area, where the object was marked (oblique)
Transitive_alignment
Rare permutation of word order
might be more accurately described as absolutive–verb–ergative (AVE) (see also syntactic ergativity). At least three of those languages (Makushi, Arekuna
Object–verb–subject word order
Object–verb–subject_word_order
Grammatical features of the Hindustani lingua franca
erstwhile subject taking the ergative construction -ne (see postpositions above). The perfective aspect thus displays split ergativity. Tabled below on the left
Hindustani_grammar
Language family spoken in Mesoamerica
set them apart from other languages of Mesoamerica, such as the use of ergativity in the grammatical treatment of verbs and their subjects and objects,
Mayan_languages
Scientific study of the Romance languages
nominative–accusative type (rather than e.g. the ergative–absolutive marking of Basque or the split ergativity of Hindi). A significant exception, however
Romance_linguistics
Earlier form of the Irish language
well as Middle Irish) shows signs of split ergativity – the pronouns are divided into two sets with partial ergative-absolutive alignment. The forms used
Early_Modern_Irish
Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon
presence of both patterns, Sumerian is considered a language with split ergativity. The general principle is that in the ḫamṭu TA, the transitive subject
Sumerian_language
Variety of Kurdish spoken in Iran and Iraq
"hatin" is "hat". Central Kurdish is claimed by some to have split ergativity, with an ergative-absolutive arrangement in the past tense for transitive verbs
Central_Kurdish
Indigenous language family of western Canada and the US
non-central NPs will take prepositions. Some Salishan languages are ergative, or split-ergative, and many take unique object agreement forms in passive statements
Salishan_languages
Language where one kind of inflection indicates multiple changes of aspect
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Fusional_language
American punk band
Jeff Erg briefly joined Hunchback, playing in both bands on the final Ergs!/Hunchback tour. After briefly playing as a solo artist following the split of
The_Ergs!
Austroasiatic language spoken in Malaysia
systems in the states of Pahang, Negeri Sembilan and Johor. Semelai is a split ergative language motivated by semantics and word order shift. Semelai has 32
Semelai_language
Western Desert dialect of Central Australia
subject, object, location, etc. Pitjantjatjara is a language with split ergativity, since its nouns and pronouns show different case marking patterns
Pitjantjatjara_dialect
Language with a very low morpheme per word ratio
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Isolating_language
Extinct Bronze Age Indo-European language
is a head-final language: it has subject-object-verb word order, a split ergative alignment, and is a synthetic language; adpositions follow their complement
Hittite_language
De Gruyter. pp. 134–6. ISBN 9783110289657. Dixon, Robert M. W. (1994). Ergativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hinton, Leanne (1984). Havasupai
Marked_nominative_alignment
Northwestern Iranian language spoken in Turkey
Kahangi, Vafsi, Balochi and Kurmanji features split ergativity in its morphology, demonstrating ergative marking in past and perfective contexts, and
Zaza_language
Proposed concept in linguistic typology
Ojibwe Verb Paradigms Archived 2 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine Split Ergative and Inverse Systems (Lecture) Topic, Focus and Point of View in Blackfoot
Direct–inverse_alignment
Language whose grammar rarely uses word inflection
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Analytic_language
Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan
shifting to an accusative language, while it still has many features of split ergativity (Hsieh & Huang 2006:91). Pazeh and Thao, also Northern Formosan languages
Saisiyat_language
Southwestern Iranian language
rules for person agreement in particular are described in the section on Ergativity in the past tenses. The constructions are as follows: The preterite is
Middle_Persian
Grammatical phenomenon in Austronesian
A-24:1-62. Aldridge, Edith. 2015. "A Minimalist Approach to the Emergence of Ergativity in Austronesian Languages". Linguistics Vanguard 1(1):313-326. Andersen
Symmetrical_voice
Sentence structure; the default word order in English
for more than 87% of the world's languages. The label SVO often includes ergative languages although they do not have nominative subjects. Subject–verb–object
Subject–verb–object word order
Subject–verb–object_word_order
Iranian language spoken in the Vafs village
Tati is a split ergative language: Split ergativity means that a language has in one domain accusative morphosyntax and in another domain ergative morphosyntax
Vafsi_dialect
Grammar of the Hittite language
of ablative and instrumental in the plural coincide. Hittite uses split ergativity: when a common/animate noun is the subject of a transitive verb, e
Hittite_grammar
Mayan language
classes of objects will not. Itzaʼ is an ergative-absolutive language demonstrating split ergativity. Ergative person markers indicate intransitive subjects
Itzaʼ_language
Dialects of Fars spoken by Jews of Shiraz, Iran
as well as several features of Old Shirazi. Judeo-Shirazi displays split ergativity in the past tenses of transitive verbs. This feature is a common link
Judeo-Shirazi
System of word ordering
chase Verb e le tamāloa ERG DEF man Subject lona atali‘i his son Object {Sā tuli} {e le tamāloa} {lona atali‘i} {PAST chase} {ERG DEF man} {his son} Verb
Verb–subject–object word order
Verb–subject–object_word_order
Grammatical feature of adverb order
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Time–manner–place
Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal and India
questions Prefix on negative verbs No subject or object agreement in verbs Split ergativity based on tense Causatives Benefactives *- Across dialects, palato-alveolar
Gurung_language
Nuristani language of Kunar, Afghanistan
grammatical gender, but number and person are marked on the verb, following a split-ergative pattern of agreement. Zemiaki was formerly considered a dialect of Grangali
Zemiaki_language
Mayan language spoken in Central America
SKETCH. p. 153. Law, Danny; Robertson, John; Houston, Stephen (2006). "Split Ergativity In The History Of The Chʼolan Branch Of The Mayan Language Family"
Chʼortiʼ_language
Mayan language of Mexico
that while the Chʼol languages feature split ergativity, the Tzeltalan languages are fully morphologically ergative. Tzeltal language programming is carried
Tzeltal_language
Panoan language of western Amazonia
alternations in word-formation. Yaminawa exhibits split ergativity; nouns and third person pronouns pattern along ergative-absolutive lines, while first and second
Yaminawa_language
Sino-Tibetan language of western Nepal
Core case markers: Nominative -Ø Ergative -e/-je Oblique/Objective -lai Tripartite marking: The split ergativity patterns in Kham is overlapped for
Magar_Kham_language
Type of morphosyntactic alignment
NOM p-V {} A ‘I’ll see you every day.’ Ergative–absolutive language Nominative–accusative language Split ergativity Gildea, Spike; Castro Alves, Flávia de
Nominative–absolutive alignment
Nominative–absolutive_alignment
Type of word order
frequency of ergativity in each category relative to the sample. Notably, full noun phrases in the OS sample (but not the SO sample) favor ergative alignment
Object–subject_word_order
Kartvelian language of northwestern Georgia
number of consonants. It has agreement between subject and object, and a split-ergative morphosyntactic system. Verbs are marked for aspect, evidentiality and
Svan_language
Southern Nuristani language
with clauses as subordinators. Subjects and objects are inflected in a split ergative system: There is a morphologically unmarked 'direct' case used for the
Nuristani_Kalasha_language
Verbs in the Hindi and Urdu languages
Mahajan, Anoop (2012-02-01). "Ergatives, antipassives and the overt light v in Hindi". Lingua. Accounting for Ergativity. 122 (3): 204–214. doi:10.1016/j
Hindustani_verbs
Study of words and their formation
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Morphology_(linguistics)
Grammar of the Gujarati language
erstwhile subject taking the ergative construction -એ(e) (see postpositions above). The perfective aspect thus displays split ergativity. The infinitive's agreement
Gujarati_grammar
Variety of Northern Straits Salish
essentially the same as other dialects of Northern Straits. Lekwungen is a split-ergative language. Lekwungen words can be a root by themselves, however, typically
Lekwungen_dialect
Way of classifying the world's languages
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Morphological_typology
Language in which certain pronouns may sometimes be omitted
any and all arguments. Hindi is a split-ergative language and when the subject of the sentence is in the ergative case (also when the sentence involves
Pro-drop_language
Extinct branch of Indo-European languages
The Anatolian branch also has a split-ergative system based on gender, with inanimate nouns being marked in the ergative case when the subject of a transitive
Anatolian_languages
Indo-Aryan language
subject–object–verb Marathi follows a split-ergative pattern of verb agreement and case marking: it is ergative in constructions with either perfective
Marathi_language
Indo-Aryan language native to the region of Punjab of Pakistan and India
erstwhile subject taking the ergative construction -ne (see postpositions above). The perfective aspect thus displays split ergativity. Tabled below on the left
Punjabi_grammar
absolutive case: Piita-p Peter-ERG.SG takornartaq stranger.ABS.SG toqup-paa kill-INT.3S/3S Piita-p takornartaq toqup-paa Peter-ERG.SG stranger.ABS.SG kill-INT
Secundative_language
American linguist (born 1949)
interpretation of split ergativity and related patterns. Language 57.3:626-57. Delancey, Scott (1982). "Modern Tibetan: A case study in ergative typology". Journal
Scott_DeLancey
Word order in which the verb comes before the object
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Verb–object_word_order
Language classification
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Object–subject–verb word order
Object–subject–verb_word_order
Sahaptian language in the United States
published texts. Sahaptin has a split ergative syntax, with direct-inverse voicing and several applicative constructions. The ergative case inflects third-person
Sahaptin_language
Tibetic language
arguments of a verb. There is a split-ergative system based on aspect; nominative-accusative in the imperfective and ergative-absolutive in the perfective
Sherpa_language
Language isolate of New Mexico, United States
text Baanaʼa, egu kauʼseeʼe, atsi sʼaama-ee srayutse. Keresan is a split-ergative language in which verbs denoting states (i.e. stative verbs) behave
Keres_language
subject in ergative languages. In C. Li. (Ed.), Subject and topic (pp. 1–24). New York: Academic Press. Dixon, R. M. W. (1994). Ergativity. Cambridge
Syntactic_pivot
Type of language morphology
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Synthetic_language
Cariban language
Alves, Flávia de (2010). "Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban" (PDF). Typological Studies in Language. 89: 159–200
Panare_language
Indigenous language on Brazil–Peru border
published an article about Matsés tense and aspect, an article on split ergativity, and an unpublished paper on negation in Matsés and Marubo. Matsés
Matsés_language
Macro-Jê language spoken in Brazil
Alves, Flávia de (2010). "Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban" (PDF). Typological Studies in Language. 89: 159–200
Kĩsêdjê_language
Concept in linguistics
PMID 24460921. S2CID 36955432. Aske, Jon. "The Accusativity/Ergativity Balance in a Non-Split Ergative Language: The Case of Euskara (Aka Basque)". Proceedings
Unaccusative_verb
Nambikwaran language spoken in Brazil
impersonal construction in Mamaindê holds that separates it from split-ergativity. Firstly, impersonals are identified by markings on verbs rather than
Mamaindê_language
Highly inflected language with many morphemes per word
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Polysynthetic_language
Mixe–Zoquean language of Mexico
marked with the Ergative/nominative split with the Absolutive in a separate grouping. For more comprehensive information on the split-ergativity of Texistepec
Texistepec_language
Chibchan language spoken in Central America
see.” or literally, “The place is not visible to me.” Ngäbere is a split-ergative language. It also displays a number of suffixal tense-aspect-modality
Ngäbere
Class of language where a sentence subject is not required
is raining.' 2A. tum-ne you:ERG nādyā-ko nadya:DAT khānā food:DIR di-yā give:PRF:MASC:SG tum-ne nādyā-ko khānā di-yā you:ERG nadya:DAT food:DIR give:PRF:MASC:SG
Null-subject_language
Australian Aboriginal language
Review of Anthropology. 32: 13–40. Schmidt, Annette (1985). "The Fate of Ergativity in Dying Dyirbal". Language. 61 (2): 378–396. doi:10.2307/414150. ISSN 0097-8507
Dyirbal_language
Tacanan language of Bolivia
585. Guillaume 2004, p. 595. Camp, Elizabeth L. (January 1985). "Split Ergativity in Cavineña". International Journal of American Linguistics. 51 (1):
Cavineña_language
Languages which place objects before verbs
Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive
Object–verb_word_order
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
Boy/Male
Muslim
Strong, Solid, Firm, Sharp
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
One who Lives Life Long; Gains Victory Within Splits
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Split Cleavage
Boy/Male
Tamil
Inside viewer, Spilt second
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, near Rishton, recorded in 1246 as Kunteclive, from Old English cunte ‘cunt’ + clif ‘slope’, i.e. ‘slope with a slit or crack in it’.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Split Meadow
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Split
Boy/Male
Hindu
Inside viewer, Spilt second
Boy/Male
Tamil
Inside viewer, Spilt second
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places so called, which split more or less evenly into two groups with different etymologies. One set (with examples in Berkshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) is named from the Old English weak dative hēan (originally used after a preposition and article) of hēah ‘high’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The other (with examples in Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Wiltshire) has Old English hīwan ‘household’, ‘monastery’. Compare Hine as the first element.
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : metonymic occupational name for a turnspit, i.e. a servant who turned the spit, from Old French haste ‘(roasting) spit’.A bearer of the name Haste from Paris is documented in Montreal in 1662.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Strong; Solid; Firm; Sharp
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Momentary; Split Second
Boy/Male
Muslim
Split, Cleavage
Boy/Male
English
From the split meadow.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Momentary; Lord Rama's Ancestor; Spilt-second; Lord Vishnu
Girl/Female
American, Christian, Hebrew, Indian
Narrow Split of Land
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Telugu
Motherly Love; Energetic Sprit
Boy/Male
Hindu
Inside viewer, Spilt second
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English : topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Gift
Girl/Female
Hindu
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Jamaican, Latin, Portuguese, Swedish, Swiss
Forest; From the Forest; Wood; Woman of the Wood
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Spirit
Girl/Female
Welsh
meaning life.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sikh
Gift of God
Girl/Female
Tamil
Srividya | à®·à¯à®°à¯€à®µà¯€à®Ÿà¯à®¯à®¾,à®·à¯à®°à¯€Â வீதà¯à®¯à®¾Â
Lakshmi and Saraswati
Boy/Male
German American Spanish
Brave traveler.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Satyapriya | ஸதà¯à®¯à®ªà¯à®°à®¿à®¯
Devoted to truth, Love to truth
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Dutch, French, German, Jamaican, Swedish
Will-helmet; Protection; Will; Helmet; Bold; Brave; Short Form of Names Beginning with Wil
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
SPLIT ERGATIVITY
n.
To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
v. t.
One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
v. t.
To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
imp. & p. p.
of Split
v. i.
To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
v. t.
A piece split off; a splinter.
v. t.
A splint bone.
v. t.
Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
v. t.
A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
v. t.
To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
a.
Divided; split; partly divided or split.
n.
To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
imp. & p. p.
of Slit
v. i.
To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
imp. & p. p.
of Spit
n.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
n.
A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
n.
the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
v. t.
To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
v. t.
To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.