Words that come from Proto-Indo-European sleyǵ-

123 words across 33 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European sleyǵ- — including slightly, slight, sleek, slick, sleight, slighter, slicker, slightness.

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English (40)

Middle English (9)

German (6)

Scottish Gaelic (6)

Dutch (5)

Old High German (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Proto-Germanic (4)

Middle Dutch (3)

Icelandic (3)

Finnish (3)

Old English (3)

Scots (3)

Middle Low German (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Old Irish (2)

Swedish (2)

Irish (2)

Old Norse (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Danish (2)

Middle High German (2)

Faroese (1)

Italian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Sicilian (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Gothic (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European sleyǵ- — 123 descendants | Etymology Explorer