Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Slyly.
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. · Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice. · Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle · Light or delicate; slight; thin.
From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”). Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd
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- Inherited-form mentionslyenm
- Derivation mentionslǿgrnon · sly, cunning
- Derivation mention*slōgizgem-pro · lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking
- Derivation mention*slak-ine-pro · to hit, throw
- Cognate mentionslæguris
- Cognate mentionsløgnn
- Cognate mentionslaustq
- Cognate mentionsluwnl
- Cognate mentionslunds
- Cognate mentionschlaude
- Doublet mentionsleighten
- Doublet mentionslöjden
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