Where does “Schlopsak” come from?

Schlopsak (Plautdietsch) comes from Plautdietsch Schlop, from Middle Low German slap, from Old Saxon slap, from Proto-West Germanic slāp, from Proto-Germanic slēpaz — sleep.

Schlopsak (Plautdietsch): sleeping bag

Definitions

  1. sleeping bag

Ancestry of “Schlopsak”, step by step

Schlopsak traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Plautdietsch Schlop

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschSchlopsleep, slumber
2Middle Low Germanslap—
3Old Saxonslapsleep
4Proto-West Germanicslāpsleep
5Proto-Germanicslēpazsleep

via Plautdietsch Sak

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschSaksack, bag
Every word from Proto-Germanic slēpaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic slāp →Every word from Old Saxon slap →
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