Where does “slap” come from?

slap (Middle Dutch) comes from Proto-Germanic slap-, from Proto-Indo-European (s)leh₂b- — to hang loosely, be weak; to be weak, limp,...

Ancestry of “slap”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicslap-
2Proto-Indo-European(s)leh₂b-to hang loosely, be weak; to be weak, limp,...

Words derived from “slap

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)leh₂b-
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