sleubh-

To slide, slip.

Derivatives include sleeve, lubricate, and slop¹.

I. Basic form *sleubh-.

1. sleeve, from Old English slēf, slīf, slīef, sleeve (into which the arm slips), from Germanic *sleub-.

2. sloven, from Middle Low German slôven, to put on clothes carelessly, from Germanic *slaubjan.

3. Suffixed form *sleubh-ro-. lubricate, lubricity, lubricious, from Latin lūbricus, slippery.

II. Variant Germanic root form *sleup-.

1.

a. slip³; cowslip, oxlip, from Old English slypa, slyppe, slipa, slime, slimy substance;

b. slop¹, from Old English *sloppe, dung;

c. slop², from Old English (ofer)slop, surplice. a-c all from Germanic *slup-.

2. sloop, from Middle Dutch slūpen, to glide.

 

[Pokorny sleub(h)- 963.]

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