Etymograph

English

sleighty

Sleighty comes from Middle English sleighty ‘sly, sneaky, clever’, from sleighte ‘Wit, shrewdness, judiciousness’, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*slōgiþō1reconstructed
  2. Old Norsec. 800–1350slœgð1‘trick, sleight, slyness’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sleighte2‘Wit, shrewdness, judiciousness’
  4. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500sleighty3‘sly, sneaky, clever’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1615sleighty3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Middle English sleighte
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Middle English sleighty
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English sleighty
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1615, W. Lawson: “You might sit in your Mount, and angle a…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*slōgiþōWiktionary, Middle English sleightereconstructed
  2. Old Norsec. 800–1350slœgðWiktionary, Middle English sleighte‘trick, sleight, slyness’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sleighteWiktionary, Middle English sleighty‘Wit, shrewdness, judiciousness’
  4. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500sleightyWiktionary, English sleighty‘sly, sneaky, clever’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1615sleightyWiktionary, English sleighty. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1615, W. Lawson: “You might sit in your Mount, and angle a…”

Formed from sleight + -y

Proto-Indo-European *slak- ‘to hit, strike, throw’

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Proto-Germanic *slōgiz ‘cunning’

Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō

Old Norse slœgð ‘cunning’

Middle English sleighte ‘Wit, shrewdness, judiciousness’

English sleight

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō

Today it means

adj cunning; sly

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō / sleighty

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