Where does “mainsleaze” come from?

mainsleaze (English) comes from English mainstream, from English stream, from Middle English streem, from Middle English strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic straum, from Proto-Germanic straumaz, from Proto-Indo-European srowmos — to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together.

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Definitions

  1. spam posted by or on behalf of a mainstream...

Ancestry of “mainsleaze”, step by step

mainsleaze traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English mainstream

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmainstreamUsed or accepted broadly rather than by small...
2EnglishstreamA small river; a large creek; a body of moving...
3Middle EnglishstreemAlternative form of strem
4Middle EnglishstremA waterbody; a region of the world containing...
5Old Englishstrēamcurrent; stream
6Proto-West Germanicstraumstream
7Proto-Germanicstraumazstream, current, river
8Proto-Indo-Europeansrowmosriver
9Proto-Indo-Europeansrew-to flow, stream
10Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together

via English sleaze

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsleazeLow moral standards; A person of low moral...
2EnglishsleazyMarked by low quality; inferior; inadequate;...
3EnglishSilesiaSilesian textile made of flax or cotton
4Late LatinSilesia
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ser-