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slippur.

shipyard

7 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈstlɪhpʏr]
  1. shipyard

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Probably from German Schlippe (“narrow passage, alley”, literally “something to slip into”), from Middle Low German slippen, from Old Saxon *slīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slīpan.

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