sloom

Significat (Anglès)

sluggish, slow, lifeless

Conceptes

lent

Sinònims

langzaam

traag

slome

traag van begrip

langzame

dom

dralend

zwak

suf

lijzig

loom

Traduccions

slow

lento

tardo

yavaş

langsam

lento

lenta

lent

lento

βραδύς

lente

καθυστερημένος

tarda

αργόστροφος

αργός

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/sloːm/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Uncertain; first attested in the late nineteenth century. Ostensibly a variant of loom (“(pleasantly) lazy”), perhaps influenced by words pertaining to slowness and sluggishness with initial sl- such as slungel, slenteren, slak and sloffen.
Note however the fixed expression slome duikelaar, which contains some of the earliest attestations of this word and derives from the pseudonym Sjloume Duikelaar, a late eighteenth-century author from Amsterdam writing in Yiddish. It is uncertain if the adaptation of the name Sjloume to slome is influenced by the prior existence of this word, or if this word in fact derives from the pseudonym.