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Slacke

German Low German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German slecke, from Old Saxon *slicko, from Proto-West Germanic *slikkō, from Proto-Germanic *slikkô, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).[1] Cognate with Dutch slek, slak (“snail”).

Noun

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Slacke m (plural Slacken)

  1. snail

References

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  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slak1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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