slap

(Inglese)

  1. slack
  2. weak

Frequenza

C1
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/slɑp/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

From Middle Dutch slap, from Proto-Germanic *slap-, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to be weak, limp, languid”), see also Latin labō (“fluctuate, waver”). Cognate with German schlaff and schlapp.

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