The story
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃sleydʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃sléydʰeti
- Proto-Germanic*slīdaną
- Proto-West Germanic*slīdan
- Old Englishslīdan
- Middle Englishsliden
- English todayslide
Inherited from Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃sléydʰeti, from *h₃sleydʰ- (“slippery”) + *-eti. Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.