Word Origin Summary

*slīkaną is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• schleichen

  German · inherited from

• slihhan

  Old High German · inherited from

• slike

  English · inherited from

• slik

  Danish · inherited from

• schläichen

  Luxembourgish · inherited from

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