Etymology

slipway

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Today it means: A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched. Full definition →

English way ← Middle English slippen ← Middle Low German slippender.?
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*slippjan
  2. Old Saxon*slippian
  3. Middle Low Germanslippender.?
  4. Middle Englishslippen
  5. Englishslip
  6. Englishway
  7. English todayslipway

From slip + way.

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