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sleigh

SLAY · noun

Proto-GermanicMiddle DutchDutchEnglish

Origin

Sleigh comes from Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, tracing back to Proto-Germanic *slidô.

Journey

The facts given don't show a shift in meaning — just a path of borrowing from Dutch into English, keeping close to its original sense of something that slides.

Related words

Sleigh is a doublet of sled, meaning the two words descend from the same root through different paths, and both connect back to the idea behind 'slide.'

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From Middle Dutch

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