split: [16] Split was borrowed from Middle Dutch splitten. This, like German spleissen ‘splice’ and English splice [16], goes back to a prehistoric base *spleid-, which may have been related to *spel-, the source of English spill. => splice
split (v.)
1580s (transitive and intransitive), not found in Middle English, probably from a Low German source such as Middle Dutch splitten, from Proto-Germanic *spl(e)it- (cognates: Danish and Frisian splitte, Old Frisian splita, German splei?en "to split"), from PIE *(s)plei- "to split, splice" (see flint).
U.S. slang meaning "leave, depart" first recorded 1954. Of couples, "to separate, to divorce" from 1942. To split the difference is suggested from 1715; to split (one's) ticket in the U.S. political sense is attested from 1842. To split hairs "make too-nice distinctions" is from 1670s (split a hair). Splitting image "exact likeness" is from 1880. To split the atom is from 1909.
split (adj.)
1640s, past participle adjective from split (v.). Split decision is from 1946 of court rulings, 1951 in boxing. Split shift is from 1904. Split personality first attested 1899.
split (n.)
1590s, "narrow cleft, crack, fissure," from split (v.). Meaning "piece of wood formed by splitting" is from 1610s. Meaning "an act of separation, a divorce" is from 1729. From 1861 as the name of the acrobatic feat. Meaning "a drink composed of two liquors" is from 1882; that of "sweet dish of sliced fruit with ice cream" is attested from 1920, American English. Slang meaning "share of the take" is from 1889. Meaning "a draw in a double-header" is from 1920.
例文
1. My cuticles were split and ragged，and my nails unevenly bitten.
私の爪の根元の表皮は亀裂が粗く、爪は食い違っている。
2.The Republicans were deeply split between progressives and conservatives.
共和党の革新派と保守派の間には深刻な分裂があった。
3.Her company has had to split up and work from two locations.
彼女の会社は分解され、2つの場所に分かれて事務を行わなければならなかった。
4.Yet it is feared the Republican leadership could split over the agreement.
だが、共和党の指導部がこの協議で意見の相違を起こす可能性があると懸念する声がある。
5.He patented the idea that the atom could be split .