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Sch  ,, ‘battle, engagement,’ from slahte, slaht, , ‘killing, slaughter, battle,’  slahta, ,  man-slahta, , ‘death-blow, killing’; an abstract formed by the sem. suffix -tâ- (as in ), from the root slah, ‘to slay.’ For  in the sense of ‘sort’ see. , ‘dyke, embankment,’ is also a derivative of, ‘to make firm by beating,’ which sense slahen may have even in the classical poets. —  ,, ‘to slaughter, slay,’ slahten,  slahtôn, ‘to kill, slaughter,’ is a derivative of  ( slahta), with the preservation of its more general meaning; so too , , ‘butcher,’  slahtœre,  slahtâri, ‘butcher’; allied to  slaughter.  ,, ‘slag, dross,’ only, from  slacke, ‘scales that fly off when metal is struck’ ( slag); allied to.   ' (1.),, ', , ‘temple,’ from the  and  slâf, ;  is  the  of , referring to both the temples (  tempora);  slaap, ‘temple.’ In  þunwęnge, allied to  tinna,  tinne and  thinna-bahho, , ‘temple,’  tünewęnge, ‘temple’ ,  dunwęngi,  þunnvange, ‘temple.’ Beneath these similarly sounding terms lies the older  term for ‘temple.’

 (2.),, ‘sleep, slumber,’ from the  and  slâf, ; a verbal  from ,  slâfen,  slâfan,  , ‘to sleep.’ This form is peculiar to  in this sense, and is wanting only in , which has preserved sofa ( root swef, Aryan swep),  allied to  somnus,  ὕπνος;  slêps, ‘sleep,’ slêpan, ‘to sleep,’  slœ́p,  sleep,  slœ̂pan,  to sleep,  slaap, slapen,  slâp, slâpan. also the derivatives with r, slâfarag,  slâfrec, slœfric, ‘sleepy,’  slâfarôn (and slâfôn),  slâfern, ‘to be asleep, get sleepy.’ With the  root slêp, ‘to sleep,’ appearing in these cognates, are also connected   and its  correspondences; hence the  meaning of  is probably ‘to be relaxed.’ For further references see under.  ,, ‘relaxed, loose, indolent,’ from and  slaf ( slaffes), ‘relaxed, idle, impotent’;   and  slap, ‘relaxed, impotent,’ whence  , retaining the  p, is bor - rowed. *slapa- is perhaps a graded form of the root slép, as lata-, ‘idle, lazy,’ is of the root lêt, ‘to omit’ (see ). slabŭ, ‘relaxed, weak,’ and lâbi, ‘to glide,’ lăbare, ‘to totter,’ have been rightly compared with the   slapa-, ‘relaxed.’ See.   (1.),, ‘sort, race, family, class’; see.

' (2.),, ‘stroke, blow,’ from the  slac ( slages),  slag, ; a verbal  of the root slah, ‘to strike.’  ', ‘to strike, beat, pulsate,’  slahen,  slahan, ‘to strike’; the g of the   is due to the grammatical change of h to g. slahan, slá (also ‘to mow down’),  sleán (from sleahan),  to slay,  slaan,  slahan, ‘to strike.’  root slah (slag), from pre- slā̆k; akin to  λακίζω,  lacerare, ‘to tear to pieces or rags,’ for slak-?. A root similar in sound appears in slechtaim, sligim, ‘I strike’ (root sleg). See and.   ,, ‘slime, mud,’ from the  slam ( slammes),.   ,, ‘carouse’; see.   ,, ‘serpent,’ from the  slange,  and ,  slango, ;   slange, , ‘serpent,’  slang; a graded form of , hence  is  ‘that which coils.’ —   ,, ‘to wind, twist,’ only, seems a  derivative of. <section end="schlängeln" /> ,, ‘slender, slim,’ from  slanc, ‘slim, lean’;   slank, ‘thin, nimble’; to this  slakke (for slanke), ‘mountain slope,’ is also probably allied. *slanka- would be connected with the root sling in, like with the root kring in  cringan; see. <section begin="Schlappe" />  (1.),, ‘slipper,’ only, from  slappe, winch is derived from  slapp, ‘loose.’

 (2.),, ‘slap; discomfiture, defeat,’ only, from  slappe;   slappe,  slap; hence also in earlier  ‘slap in the face.’ From a  *slapfe is derived  schiaffo, ‘slap in the face.’ <section end="Schlappe" /> ,, ‘to slap, hang down, go slipshod,’ only, from  and  slabben; see. <section begin="Schlaraffe" /> ,, ‘sluggard, lubber,’ for earlier. , which is met with as late as the first half of the last<section end="Schlaraffe" />