schlep

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*sleupan
2. Old High German · derived fromsleifen“to drag”
3. Middle Low German · derived fromslêpen
4. Middle High German · derived fromslepen
5. Yiddish · derived fromשלעפּן“to drag”
6. English todayschlep

From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan. Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).

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