| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | sleubh- |
| DEFINITION: | To slide, slip.
Derivatives include sleeve, lubricate, and slop1.
I. Basic form *sleubh-. 1. sleeve, from Old English sl f, sl f, slef, sleeve (into which the arm slips), from Germanic *sleub-. 2. sloven, from Middle Low German slôven, to put on clothes carelessly, from Germanic *slaubjan. 3. Suffixed form *sleubh-ro-. lubricate, lubricity, lubricious, from Latin l bricus, slippery.
II. Variant Germanic root form *sleup-. 1a. slip3; cowslip, oxlip, from Old English slypa, slyppe, slipa, slime, slimy substance; b. slop1, from Old English *sloppe, dung; c. slop2, from Old English (ofer)slop, surplice. a–c all from Germanic *slup-. 2. sloop, from Middle Dutch slpen, to glide. (Pokorny sleub(h)- 963.) |
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