Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Waste material from a mine. · Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal. · Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders. · Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
To produce slag. · To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point. · To reduce to slag. · To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
Borrowed from Middle Low German slagge, slaggen (“slag, dross”), from Old Saxon *slaggo, from Proto-West Germanic *slaggō, from Proto-Germanic *slaggô, from Proto-Germanic *slagōną (“to strike”) + *-gô (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle Low German slāgen (“to strike”), since originally the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering, from *slagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *slagōn. Compare also Old Saxon slegi, from Proto-West Germanic *slagi. See also Dutch slak, German Schlacke, Swedish slagg; also compare English slay.
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