slite:

From Middle English sliten, from Old English slītan ?(“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *slītan? ?(“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- ?(“to cut, trim”). Cognate with North Frisian slitten ?(“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten ?(“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schlei?en ?(“to trim”), Swedish slita ?(“to rip, tear”).