schlaff

Meaning

  1. slack, limp
  2. weak, weary

Frequency

24k
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

blampig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

lampelig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

lämpelig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

lampig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

läätschig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

limpelig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

lumpelig

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃlaf/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German slaf, from Old High German slaf, from Proto-Germanic *slap-, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to be weak, limp, languid”), see also Latin labō (“fluctuate, waver”). The same word of Low German origin is schlapp, a synonym in modern standard German.

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