Etymology

slöjd

Today it means: A system of handicraft-based education started in Finland in 1865 and later adopted worldwide. Full definition →

Swedish slöjd ← Old Swedish sløghþ ← Old Norse slœgð
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*slōgiþō
  2. Old Norse · derived fromslœgð
  3. Old Swedish · derived fromsløghþ
  4. Swedish · borrowed fromslöjd“sleight of hand, skilled or crafty”
  5. English todayslöjd

Borrowed from Swedish slöjd (“sleight of hand, skilled or crafty”), from Old Swedish sløghþ, from Old Norse slœgð, from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of sleight and sly.

Words from the same roots

Swedishslöjd all →

sloyd

Old Norseslœgð all →

sleight

Proto-Germanic*slōgiþō all →

sleight

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.