(s)leidh-

    (s)leidh-

    English meaning: slippery, to slide

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlũpfrig, gleiten”

    Note: extension from lei-3, slei- above S. 662 f.

    Material: O.Ind. srédhati “gleitet ab, geht fehl, errs “; Gk. ὀλισθάνω, Aor. ὤλισθον “gleite”, ὀλισθηρός ‘schlũpfrig”, ὄλισθος m. “Glätte, Schlũpfrigkeit” (*lidh-to-s) based on auf -dhō- or -tō- present; anlaut as in ὀλιβρός from the related root (s)leib-, above S. 663; M.Ir. slōet “Floss”, Ir. slaod “gleitende mass”, with unclear dd; O.E. slīdan, M.H.G. slīten “glide, slide, rutschen”, O.E. slide m. “Ausgleiten, fall”, O.H.G. slito, O.Ice. sleði “ sled “ (compare Ltv. slidas ‘schlittschuhe”), O.E. slidor ‘schlũpfrig, smooth “, slidrian “ausgleiten”, nd. slidderen, Ger. schlittern; Lith. slūstu, slūdau, slūsti “glide, slide”, Ltv. slist, slīst ds., slîdēt “rutschen, glide, slide”, Lith. slidùs “ smooth, schlũpfrig”, Ltv. slids ds., slidas pl. ‘schlittschuhe”, slaids “abschũssig, smooth “, sliẽde ‘spoor, Geleise (of cart)”; O.Pruss. slidenikis “Leithund”; O.C.S. slědъ ‘spoor”, Russ. slěd ds., sležý , sledítь ‘spũre, folge” etc. in addition probably n-present sli-n-dhō in Lith. lendù, lindaú, līsti, Ltv. lìenu, lìdu, lìst “ grovel, truckle, creep, hineinschlũpfen”, and through Ablautentgleisung Gmc. *slind-, sland-, slund- in Goth. fra-slindan “verschlingen” (actually “glide, slide lassen”), O.H.G. slintan ds., M.H.G. slint, slunt “gullet”, äDutch slinderen “glide, slide, grovel, truckle, creep “, M.H.G. lendern “amble”, Dutch lunderen “zaudern”; compare with other extension sli-n-dō, Gmc. *slint- in O.Ice. sletta slatt “ sink, glide, slide, hängen” (*slintan), sletta “hit, throw, spray” (*slantjan), Swe. slinta “fall, glide, slide”, Swe. dial. släntra = nd. slentern, Dutch slenteren, Ger. schlenzen “amble”, ablaut. Nor. Dan. sluntre “uN.entlich sein”, nd. sluntern ds., Ger. schlunzen “careless, neglectful go”; whether Lat. lumbrīcus m. “worm” auf *londhr-īko- zurũckginge, could above n-forms also auf eine root (s)lend(h)- “glide, slide” zurũckgefũhrt become.

    References: WP. II 707 f., 715, Trautmann 269, Vasmer 2, 658 f., Johannesson 922 f., 931 f.