Etymology

sled

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Today it means: A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it. Full definition →

Middle English sledde ← Middle Low German slede ← Old Saxon slido
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃sleydʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃sléydʰeti
  3. Proto-Germanic*slīdaną
  4. Proto-Germanic*slidô
  5. Old Dutch*slido
  6. Middle Dutchsledde
  7. Proto-Germanic*slidô
  8. Old Saxonslido
  9. Middle Low Germanslede
  10. Middle Englishsledde
  11. English todaysled

From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*slidô all →

sleigh

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