Etymology

sloot

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Today it means: A ditch. Full definition →

Afrikaans sloot ← Dutch sloot ← Middle Dutch slote
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*slaut
  2. Old Dutch · derived from*slōt
  3. Middle Dutch · derived fromslote
  4. Dutch · derived fromsloot
  5. Afrikaans · borrowed fromsloot
  6. English todaysloot

Borrowed from Afrikaans sloot, from Dutch sloot, from Middle Dutch slote, sloot, from Old Dutch *slōt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.