Etymology

Schlee

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

Middle High German slē ← Old High German slēo ← Proto-West Germanic *slaiw
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  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*slaiwaz“weak, sluggish, lethargic”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*slaiw
  3. Old High German · derived fromslēo
  4. Middle High German · derived fromslē“slow, lethargic”
  5. English todaySchlee

German surname, from the noun Schlehe (“sloe bush”). Also from the archaic Middle High German slē (“slow, lethargic”), from Old High German slēo, from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“weak, sluggish, lethargic”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.