Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface. · To move on a low-friction surface. · To drop down and skid into a base. · To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃sleydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₃sléydʰeti Proto-Germanic *slīdaną Proto-West Germanic *slīdan Old English slīdan Middle English sliden English slide Inherited from Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃sléydʰeti, from *h₃sleydʰ- (“slippery”) + *-eti. Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
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- Cognate mentionslītangoh
- Cognate mentionschlitternde
- Cognate mentionslīdengml
- Cognate mentionslīdendum
- Cognate mentionslijderennl
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