dirt

Origin: From , from , from , excrement, from , to have diarrhea. Cognate with dialectal and , , dialectal , and , , dirt, mud, filth, drijt and excrement, , shit, regional , . The word originally referred to excrement before shifting to the current sense of "soil". For a semantic parallel, see Norwegian dirt, filth, grime, mud, from Old Norse shit, which is cognate with English shit. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).