Where does “slap” come from?

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

slap (Old Saxon): sleep

Definitions

  1. sleep

Ancestry of “slap”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicslāpsleep
2Proto-Germanicslēpazsleep

Words derived from “slap”

Every word from Proto-Germanic slēpaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic slāp →