- slíkja
- u, f. a smooth, thin texture. slíkju-ligr, adj. smooth, of a kerchief.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
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sleek — [16] Sleek originated as a variant form of slick [14], which probably went back to an unrecorded Old English *slice. It apparently has relatives in Icelandic slíkja and Norwegian slikja ‘smoothen’. => SLICK … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
sleek — [16] Sleek originated as a variant form of slick [14], which probably went back to an unrecorded Old English *slice. It apparently has relatives in Icelandic slíkja and Norwegian slikja ‘smoothen’. Cf.⇒ SLICK … Word origins
slick — slick1 slickly, adv. slickness, n. /slik/, adj., slicker, slickest, n., adv. adj. 1. smooth and glossy; sleek. 2. smooth in manners, speech, etc.; suave. 3. sly; shrew … Universalium
slike — v. a. == make smooth, comfortable. Rel. S. i. 43. part. ‘isliked.’ O. and N. 841. ON. slikja … Oldest English Words
slick — I [[t]slɪk[/t]] adj. er, est, n. adv. 1) smooth and glossy; sleek 2) smooth in manners, speech, etc.; suave 3) sly; shrewdly adroit 4) ingenious; cleverly devised 5) slippery, esp. from being covered with or as if with ice or oil 6) deftly… … From formal English to slang
(s)leig- — (s)leig English meaning: to hit, hack Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlagen, hacken” Material: Lat. ligō, ōnis m. “hack, mattock, hoe”, O.Ir. sliucht m. ‘spoor, break, section, progeny “, O.E. slicc n. (*slikja ) ‘schläger, hammer”,… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
