slæwþ
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slāw + -þ. Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editslǣwþ f
Inflection
editDeclension of slæwþ (strong ō-stem)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “slǽwþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.