Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A furtive sneaking motion. · The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf. · The meat of such a prematurely born animal. · A bastard child, one born out of wedlock.
Thin; lean
To sneak about furtively. · To give birth to an animal prematurely.
From Middle English slynken, sclynken, from Old English slincan (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleng-, *slenk- (“to turn; wind; twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak; crawl”). Cognate with West Frisian slinke, Dutch slinken (“to shrink; shrivel”), Low German slinken, Swedish slinka (“to glide”). Compare also German schleichen (“to slink”). More at sleek.
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- Inherited-form mentionslynkenenm
- Inherited-form mentionslincanang · to creep; crawl
- Inherited-form mention*slinkanągem-pro · to creep; crawl
- Derivation mention*sleng-ine-pro
- Derivation mention*sel-ine-pro · to sneak; crawl
- Cognate mentionslinkefy
- Cognate mentionslinkennl · to shrink; shrivel
- Cognate mentionslinkennds
- Cognate mentionslinkasv · to glide
- Cognate mentionschleichende · to slink
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