slá
Icelandic
/stlauː/
verb-strong
Definitions
- (ambitransitive) to hit, to strike
- (transitive) to strike, to hit (with something)
- (transitive) to mow (grass, etc.)
- to mint (coins)
- (baseball) to bat
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse slá (strike, beat, hit, bar, bolt, smite, crossbeam, rail) inherited from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (strike, kill, hit, fight, beat) derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (throw, hit, strike).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*slak-
Gloss
throw, hit, strike
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- foreslay English
- overslay English
- slaughter English
- slay English
- slayable English
- slayage English
- slayee English
- slayer English
- slayest English
- slayeth English
- Schlucht German
- slagen German
- *slak- Proto-Indo-European
- slå Norwegian Bokmål
- *slahaną Proto-Germanic
- *slahtrą Proto-Germanic
- *slahtō Proto-Germanic
- *slahō Proto-Germanic
- *slōgiz Proto-Germanic
- slå Norwegian Nynorsk
- slean Old English
- sleen Middle English
- slá Old Norse
- slå Danish
- mark Icelandic
- markslá Icelandic
- slahan Old High German
- slahen Old High German
- sláa Faroese
- opschloen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- schloen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌰𐍆𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *slahan gmw-pro
- slan Old Dutch
- slān Old Dutch
- slahan Old Saxon
- slāhan Old Saxon
- sla Old Swedish
- sla, slā Old Swedish
- ṣlô Westrobothnian