Etymology

slidder

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Today it means: Slippery. Full definition →

Middle English slider ← Old English slidor ← Proto-West Germanic *slidr
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slidder · adjective1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃sleydʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃slidʰ-ró-s
  3. Proto-Germanic*slidraz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*slidr
  5. Old Englishslidor
  6. Middle Englishslider
  7. English todayslidder

Inherited from Middle English slider, from Old English slidor (“slippery”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidr (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slidraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃slidʰ-ró-s, from *h₃sleydʰ- (“to slip”) + *-rós. Related to Old English slīdan (“to slide”). More at slide.

slidder · verb2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃sleydʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃sléydʰeti
  3. Proto-Germanic*slīdaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*slīdan
  5. Proto-West Germanic*slidrōn
  6. Old Englishslidorian
  7. Middle Englishslideren
  8. English todayslidder

Inherited from Middle English slideren (“to skid, slip”), from Old English slidorian (“to slide, slither”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn (“to slide, slip”), from *slīdan (“to slide”) + *-rōn. Cognate with Middle Dutch slideren (“to drag, train”), German schlittern (“to slip, slide”).

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