Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes. · Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow. · A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain. · The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet”). Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud (“mixture of rain and snow”)). The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsleteenm
- Inherited-form mention*slēteang
- Inherited-form mention*slautijāgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*slautijǭgem-pro · sleet
- Derivation mentionslyddanon
- Cognate mentionsludda · mixture of rain and snow
- Cognate mentionSlootnds · hail
- Cognate mentionSchloßede
- Cognate mentionsloytagmq-ogt · slush, sleet
- Doublet mentionsluten
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