Where does “verschlagen” come from?

verschlagen (German) comes from Dutch verslagen, from Old High German firslagan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraslagan.

verschlagen (German): to drive, to strand; to shlep; to bring causing difficulty, often to somewhere someone didn't want to go

Definitions

  1. to drive, to strand; to shlep; to bring causing difficulty, often to somewhere someone didn't want to go

Ancestry of “verschlagen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchverslagen
2Old High Germanfirslagan—
3Proto-West Germanic*fraslagan—

Words derived from “verschlagen”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *fraslagan →Every word from Old High German firslagan →Every word from Dutch verslagen →