Slacke
German Low German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German slecke, from Old Saxon *slicko, from Proto-West Germanic *slikkō, from Proto-Germanic *slikkô, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).[1] Cognate with Dutch slek, slak (“snail”).
Noun
[edit]Slacke m (plural Slacken)
References
[edit]- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slak1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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- German Low German terms inherited from Middle Low German
- German Low German terms derived from Middle Low German
- German Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon
- German Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
- German Low German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German Low German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German Low German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German Low German lemmas
- German Low German nouns
- German Low German masculine nouns