slink
English
/slɪŋk/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
- (ambitransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English slynken inherited from Old English slincan (creep, crawl) inherited from Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (crawl, creep) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sleng-, *sel- (dwelling, village, human settlement, spring, sneak, crawl, favor, move quickly, creep, of good mood, home).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sel-
Gloss
dwelling, village, human settlement, spring, sneak, crawl, favor, move quickly, creep, of good mood, home
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
村
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- skin English
- slinker English
- slinkest English
- slinketh English
- slinkily English
- slinkiness English
- slinkskin English
- slinky English
- Silvānus Latin
- exsul Latin
- insultus Latin
- salio Latin
- silva Latin
- solamen Latin
- īnsultāre Latin
- Schleichwerbung German
- anschleichen German
- schleichen German
- slinken Dutch, Flemish
- verslinken Dutch, Flemish
- ῡ̔́λη Ancient Greek
- *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European
- *sel- Proto-Indo-European
- *sleng- Proto-Indo-European
- *slewb- Proto-Indo-European
- *sl̥yétor Proto-Indo-European
- *sél-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *fraslindaną Proto-Germanic
- *saliz Proto-Germanic
- *salą Proto-Germanic
- *slinkaną Proto-Germanic
- *slippijaną Proto-Germanic
- *sulī Proto-Germanic
- *sēliz Proto-Germanic
- slincan Old English
- शाला Sanskrit
- slynken Middle English
- *selo Proto-Slavic
- seimeira Galician
- slinken Middle Dutch
- sala Latvian
- insult Middle French
- *slinkan gmw-pro
- *slinkan Old Dutch
- sālig Old Saxon