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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *slobʰ-néh₂-ti,[1] an iterative verb related to *slēpaną (“to sleep”).
Pronunciation
Verb
*slappōną[1]
- to be slack
Inflection
The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, singular *slapp- against non-singular *slab-.
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*slappōn/bōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 453