shat

See also: shát

English

A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc.^[1]^[2] First recorded in the eighteenth century.^[3]

shat

simple past tense and past participle of shit
- 1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7):
  Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe.
- 2009, Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing:
  We all lived in small communities, hunted, and foraged. We shat in the woods.

↑ Bruce L. Derwing, Royal Skousen, Productivity and the English Past Tense, in The Reality of Linguistic Rules, page 202
↑ Survival of the Strongest, in Studies in the History of the English Language V (2010, →ISBN, page 101: What may come as a surprise, depending on the framework in which one operates, is that sit must have been largely responsible for the preterite shat of shit and probably the preterite spat of spit. Shit should conjugate shite~shote, and spit was originally weak (OED).
↑ Harper, Douglas (2001), “Etymology Online Dictionary: 'shit'”, in Etymology Online Dictionary‎, Douglas Harper, retrieved 2009-04-13

From Proto-Albanian *śaktā, from Proto-Indo-European *sē̆k (“to cut”). Cognate to Latin secula (“sickle”), sacena (“pick-axe of the pontifix”).^[1]

shat m (indefinite plural shata)

↑ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.358

Borrowed from English shirt

shât f

shat

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