Where does “slap” come from?

slap (Danish) comes from Middle Low German slap, from Old Saxon slap, from Proto-West Germanic slāp, from Proto-Germanic slēpaz — sleep.

slap (Danish): loose; limp; slack

Definitions

  1. loose; limp; slack

Ancestry of “slap”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanslap—
2Old Saxonslapsleep
3Proto-West Germanicslāpsleep
4Proto-Germanicslēpazsleep

Words derived from “slap”

Every word from Proto-Germanic slēpaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic slāp →Every word from Old Saxon slap →
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