The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*slintaną
- English todayslant
Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.