slak-

    slak-

    English meaning: to hit, hammer

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlagen, hämmern”

    Note: only Irish and Germanic

    Material: M.Ir. slacc ‘sword”, Ir. slacaire ‘schläger” (with expressive -kk-); M.Ir. slachta “beaten”, Ir. slacht m. “good apparition, from gutem blow, knock”, Gael. slachdaim “hit with dem hammer”, slachdan “club, mace, joint”; Goth. slahan, O.Ice. slü, O.E. slēan, O.S. O.H.G. slahan (sluoc, sluogen, geslagen) “hit”; O.H.G.slagon, O.Fris. slagia ds.; O.Ice. slü f. “ shaft, pole, bar, bolt”, O.E. slahe, slēa “Weberkamm”, M.H.G. sla, slage ‘schlagwerkzeug”, M.L.G. slawe “Hufbeschlag”, M.H.G. slouwe ‘spoor, Fährte” (*slagwō); lengthened grade O.Ice. slø̄ gr “hinterlistig” (“*board up; strand; take away; bring; mishit; wallop; thrash “); Goth. slauhts f. ‘schlachtung” (*sl̥k-ti-); O.Ice. slüttr f. “Mahd”, slütr f. ‘schlachtfleisch”, O.H.G. slahta “Tötung, Schlachtung”; with a meaning as Ger. jemandem nachschlagen, blow, knock “kind of”: O.H.G. gislaht “edel geartet”, gislahti n. ‘stem, quality “, Ger. Geschlecht.

    References: WP. II 706 f., Wissmann Nomina postverb. 74.