Where does “šlajfa” come from?
šlajfa (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German schleife, from Middle High German sloufe, from Old High German sloufa.
Ancestry of “šlajfa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | German | schleife | inflection of schleifen:
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| 2 | Middle High German | sloufe | — |
| 3 | Old High German | sloufa | — |