The story
- Lapine · borrowed fromsilflay
- English todaysilflay
Borrowed from Lapine silflay, coined by Richard Adams in Watership Down as part of the fictional language Lapine, which in the story is spoken by rabbits. The word silflay (“to eat outdoors”) is derived from silf (“outdoors”) + flay (“food”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.