Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. · Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. · Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. · Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
Someone who is slow; a sluggard. · A slow song.
To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. · To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. · To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
Slowly.
From Middle English slaw, slow, from Old English slāw (“lazy; inert, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch slee, sleeuw (“cramped, stiff; blunt; sour”), Danish sløv (“blunt; dull; apathetic, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid; drowsy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted; blunt; jaded”), Norwegian Nynorsk sljo, slø, sløv (“blunt; weak; lazy”), Swedish slö (“dull; lazy, lethargic, slow, sluggish”).
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- Inherited-form mentionslawenm
- Inherited-form mentionslāwang · lazy; inert, slow
- Inherited-form mention*slaiwgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*slaiwazgem-pro · blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack
- Derivation mention*(s)leyH-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsleenl
- Cognate mentionsløvda · blunt; dull; apathetic, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid; drowsy
- Cognate mentionsljóris · dim-witted; blunt; jaded
- Cognate mentionsljonn
- Cognate mentionslösv · dull; lazy, lethargic, slow, sluggish
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