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slap.

slack

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

adj/slɑp/

  1. slack

  2. weak

Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch slap, from Proto-Germanic *slap-, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to be weak, limp, languid”), see also Latin labō (“fluctuate, waver”). Cognate with German schlaff and schlapp.

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