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.'