Etymology

afterslip

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Today it means: A non-violent movement of the ground following an earthquake Full definition →

English slip ← Middle English slippen ← Middle Low German slippender.?
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep(o)teros
  4. Proto-Germanic*after
  5. Old Englishæfter
  6. Middle Englishafter
  7. Englishafter
  8. Old Englishæfter
  9. Old Englishæfter-
  10. Middle Englishafter-
  11. Englishafter-
  12. Proto-West Germanic*slippjan
  13. Old Saxon*slippian
  14. Middle Low Germanslippender.?
  15. Middle Englishslippen
  16. Englishslip
  17. English todayafterslip

From after- + slip.

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