schlapp

Meaning

  1. weak, lacking vigour, weary, exhausted
  2. slack, flabby, limp

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃlap/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle Low German slap (“flaccid”), from Proto-Germanic *slap-, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to be weak, limp, languid”), see also Latin labō (“fluctuate, waver”). Doublet of schlaff, which is often interchangeable in modern German. Also cognate with Dutch slap.

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