Etymology

Schlag

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Today it means: A surname from German. Full definition →

German Schlag ← Middle High German slac ← Old High German slag
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*slak-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*slahanądeverb.
  3. Proto-Germanic*slagiz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*slagi
  5. Old High Germanslag
  6. Middle High Germanslac
  7. GermanSchlag
  8. English todaySchlag

Borrowed from German Schlag.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.