slæwþ
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slāw + -þ. Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
slǣwþ f
Inflection[edit]
Declension of slæwþ (strong ō-stem)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “slǽwþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.