Where does “slīeflēas” come from?

slīeflēas (Old English) comes from Old English lēas, from Proto-Germanic *laus.

slīeflēas (Old English): sleeveless

Definitions

  1. sleeveless

Ancestry of “slīeflēas”, step by step

slīeflēas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old English lēas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishlēasfalse, lax; false, void, loose; devoid of, loose...
2Proto-Germanic*laus—

via Old English slīef

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishslīefsleeve

Words derived from “slīeflēas”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *laus →Every word from Old English lēas →