particle expressing separation, from W.Gmc.
*ti- (cf. O.Fris.
ti-, O.H.G.
zi-, Ger.
zer-), from P.Gmc.
*tiz-, cognate with L.
dis-. Some 125 compound verbs with this element are recorded in O.E.; they declined rapildy in M.E. and disappeared by c.1500 except as conscious archaisms.
