Etymology

sley

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Middle English slay ← Old English slege
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromslege
  2. Middle English · inherited fromslay
  3. English todaysley

From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.