slim

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Anlam (İngilizce)

  1. intelligent, bright
  2. clever, smart
  3. (Dutch, Eastern, dialectal) wrong, incorrect, bad

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/slɪm/
Etimoloji (İngilizce)

In summary

From Middle Dutch slim, slem, slimp, slemp, from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”), compare German schlimm (“bad”), English slim. The semantic development in Dutch was “physically crooked” → “morally crooked” → “sly, artful” → “clever, intelligent”.

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