Etymology

sledder

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Today it means: A person who rides a sled. Full definition →

English sled ← Middle English sledde ← Middle Low German slede
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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. Englishsled
  12. English todaysledder

From sled + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.