英语词汇“Indo-European root: sleubh-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: sleubh-

释义

‌‌sleubh-
To slide, slip.
Derivatives include sleeve, lubricate, and slop.¹

Basic form *sleubh‑.
1. sleeve, from Old English slēf, slīf, slīef, 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 lūbricus, slippery.
Variant Germanic root form *sleup‑.
1. 1. slip³; cowslip, oxlip, from Old English slypa, slyppe, slipa, slime, slimy substance;
  2. slop¹, from Old English *sloppe, dung;
  3. slop², from Old English (ofer)slop, surplice. a-c all from Germanic *slup‑.
2. sloop, from Middle Dutch slūpen, to glide.

[Pokorny sleub(h)‑ 963.]

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