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Sch ribbons, favour,’ for earlier (still ), , allied to  sloufen, slöufen, ‘to push, slip, dress’; also  slaupjan, ‘to strip off’;  slûpan, ‘to glide, slip’ ( slop),  sliupan, ‘to slip,’  sliofan,  sliefen, ‘to slide, slip.’ The  root slū̆p, from pre- slū̆b, contained in these words, has been connected, perhaps rightly, with  (for *slûbricus), ‘slippery,’ and  slùbnas, ‘weak.’  ,, ‘to slide, sharpen, whet,’ from slîfen, ‘to glide, sink, grind a weapon,’ &c. ( ‘to sharpen by letting it slide’), slîfan, ‘to glide, sink, smooth’;   slijpen, ‘to sharpen,’  tô-slîpan, ‘to dissolve,’ to which are allied  to slip, and slippers ( schippire, ‘to escape’). How the root slī̆p, ‘to glide, slip,’ is connected with the  root slū̆p, discussed under the preceding word, and further also with  (root slī̆k), has not yet been ascertained. The corresponding factitive, , ‘to trail,’ from and  sleifen,  ‘to cause to slide along,’ hence ‘to drag along, trail,’ even late  eine burc sleifen, ‘to raze a city’;   and  slepen, ‘to drag along the ground, trail,’ whence   is borrowed. See.  ,, ‘slime, mucus, phlegm, filth,’ from slîm, , ‘slime, mire, sticky fluid’;  *slîm is wanting. slijm, ‘slime,’ slîm, and the   slime,  slîm, ;  *sleims is wanting. The root slī̆, ‘to be smooth, slippery,’ contained in these words, which is especially apparent in slîmen, ‘to male smooth, brighten by grinding,’ is closely related to  lîmare, ‘to file, polish, smooth,’ lîma, ‘file,’ with which probably  lêvis and  λεῖος, ‘smooth,’ are also connected. In and  initial s disappears before l. Perhaps lîmus, ‘slime’ (see under ), may be adduced here;  further.   ,, ‘to slit, split, gash,’ from slîȥen,  slîȥan, ‘to split, tear to pieces, wear out’; corresponding to  slîtan, ‘to tear to pieces,’  slijten, ‘to wear out,’  slîtan, ‘to tear to pieces,’ to which  to slit is allied,  slíta, ‘to tear to pieces.’ The  root slī̆t, ‘to tear to pieces’ ( *sleitan), from pre- slī̆d, has not yet been found in the non- languages. See, the intensive form. ,, as the factitive of the  , is  and  sleiȥen, sleitzen, ‘to tear to pieces, split.’  , ‘to carouse,’ from late slęmmen, ‘to squander,’ allied to late  slamp, ‘carouse’;   slemp, ‘dainty meal,’ slempen, ‘to carouse,’ with which, , ‘rinsings,’ is connected. The term is wanting in the other languages.  ,, see.   ,, ‘to lounge, saunter,’ only, formed from the   slendern,  slenderen. —   ,, ‘old practice or custom, loafer,’ only, formed from ; in  slender, ‘sauntering gait.’ The d after n represents an older t, which is correctly permutated in  , ‘to saunter’;   slenten, ‘to saunter.’  ,, ‘to sling, fling; loiter, lounge’; from late slęnkern, ‘to sling,’ allied to  slęnge, slęnger, slęnker, ‘sling,’  slęngira, , ‘sling’; derivatives from a root sling (see ). From this was formed slinga,,  slinge, , ‘sling,’ whence the  term  elingue was borrowed;   sling, and see.  ,, ‘train (of a dress), trail,’ only, from  slepe,  sleep, ‘train.’ —  , ‘to drag along, trail’; it occurs even in ; from and ;   and  slepen. See.  ,, ‘sling, swing,’ from the late  slûder, ; probably borrowed (whence?). The  word is quoted under. <section end="Schleuder" /> ,, ‘to perform in a slovenly manner, bungle’; it is not really related to the preceding word, though it is instinctively connected with it by Germans, in , ‘undervalue,’ for example. The is allied to  slûderer, ‘he who works hastily and negligently,’ which again, with an excrescent dental (as in ), is akin to  slûr,, ‘bungling, idling, idler’;   and. ,, ‘hasty, speedy,’ from sliunec,  slûnîg, ‘quick, speedy,’ in  also ‘thriving.’ A lengthened form of  *slû-na-, for which we have, however, snû-na-; the l seems to have been produced by assimilation on account of the suffix n. Allied to the root