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Sch snū̆, ‘to hasten, move quickly, turn’;   sniumo,  sneóme,, ‘speedily, quickly,’  sniumundô, ‘hastily,’ as. snûde,, ‘quickly’; as a sniumjan, ‘to hasten,’  sniwan, ‘to hasten,’  sneówian, ‘to hasten,’  snúa, ‘to turn.’  ,, ‘sluice,’ only, formed from  slüse,  sluis, ‘aqueduct,’ which is derived from  escluse,  écluse (from early  sclusa, exclusa). From the same source sluice is derived.   ,, ‘byway, trick,’ from slich, , ‘light, gait,’ allied to.  ,, ‘plain, homely, honest,’ only, formed to represent the meanings of  slëht (see ), which became obsolete in  , from the  and   slihten, ‘to make plain, smooth over,’ and the  abstract form slihte, , ‘straightforwardness’;   slihten, ‘to make plain,’ slihtî, allied to slëht, ‘straight, even.’ ,, see.  ,, ‘to close, shut, include, infer,’ from slieȥen,  slioȥan, ‘to shut,’  *slûtan ( to  and  slûten), is attested by slutil, ‘key’;  sluiten, ‘to lock up,’  slûta; further Northern  sloat, slot, ‘bolt of a door.’ In  and  the corresponding  and  are wanting. The root certainly originated in pre- sklū̆d — the combination skl is not tolerated in, — and hence it may be compared with  claudo for *sclaudo (Aryan root klaud, as well as sklaud), as a cognate term. See and.   ,, ‘sharpening, grinding, edge,’ from slif ( sliffes), , ‘polish, slipping’; allied to.  ,, ‘bad, wicked,’ from slimp, , ‘awry, aslant,’ whence the  slimbes, ‘obliquely’;  *slimb, ‘aslant,’ may be assumed from the derivative  form slimbî, ‘slope.’ The moral signification of the  first occurs in ; a similar development is seen in  slim, ‘bad’ (beside which occurs slimbeen, ‘person with bandy-legs’). slim and slœ́mr, ‘vile,’ were borrowed from the Continent. The remoter history of slimba-, ‘aslant, awry,’ from which  sghembo, ‘awry, bent,’ was borrowed at an early period, is quite obscure.  ,, ‘knot, loop, noose, snare,’ only; corresponding in form to  slinge, ‘sling,’  (see ), which meaning was retained in  till the 17th  (so too  eslingua,  élingue). On account of its sense, however, is not to be derived from this  word, but from the   —  ,, ‘to wind, twine, twist, sling,’ from slingen,  slingan, ‘to wind, entwine, swing to and fro,’  also ‘to creep,’  ‘to move’;   slingeren, ‘to hurl, swing,’  slingan,  to slung,  slyngva, ‘to throw’;  *slingwan (or rather *sleihwan) is wanting. The idea of the root slingw, to which both  and  are allied, was ‘a revolving, swinging motion.’ The  root slingw (*slinhw) originated in pre- slenk, as is indicated by  slínkti, ‘to creep’ ( sląkŭ, ‘crooked’?). —  ,, ‘sluggard, rascal, blackguard,’ earlier ,  perhaps ‘sneak’; wanting in and in the other languages.   (1.),, ‘to twine, wind.’ See the preceding article.

 (2.),, ‘to swallow, engulf,’ a term introduced by Luther, for   slinden,  slintan, ‘to devour’; in  nd changes to ng, as, e.g.,  linge, ‘Linde’ (linden), gebungen,  (bound), schlung,  (gullet). fra-slindan, ‘to devour,’ slinden, ‘to devour’; further corresponding  are wanting in. The root slind, ‘to devour,’ seems to be cognate with the root slī̆d, ‘to slide.’ See  and also. The change from to  is due to connecting the word with  (1); , ‘to swallow.’  ,, ‘sleigh, sledge,’ from the  slitte, usually slite, ,  slita, , slito, ;   slede,  slede,  sled, sledge,  sleðe, , ‘sleigh.’ From  is derived  slitta, ‘sleigh.’ The  cognates are based on a  root slī̆d, ‘to slide,’ which is preserved in the   and  slide;  the    slîten, whence   , ‘to slide (on ice),’  slîdan. Pre- slī̆dh, ‘to slide,’ is also attested by slidus, ‘smooth’ (of ice), slýsti (root slyd), ‘to slide,’  slidas, ‘skates,’ and  sridh, ‘to stumble’; the root seems to have been often used in  