sléan

Part of speech: verb

Verb type: strong verb (6)

1. to strike; to beat; 2. to kill, slay; to slaughter; 3. to forge, malleate, hammer out; 4. to sting, bite

Etymology

[Mod E SLAY ← Prot-Germ *slahan; run ON slaginaR p.p. “slain, killed”; Goth slahan; O Fris slā; O Sax slahan; Dt slaan; OHG slahan (Mod G schlagen); Icel slá ← Indo-Europ *slak-; cf MIr slachta p.p. “struck”]

Paradigm

4.1.6. - VI class

The sixth class was characterized by the Prot-Germ vowel gradation ă – ō – ō– ă [← Indo-Europ quantitative ablaut ŏ – ō – ō – ŏ].

This vowel gradation finds the following expression in Anglo-Saxon (depending on the surroundings of the stem vowel):

VI class	infinitive	past tense singular	past tense plural	past participle
to shake, quiver	scacan, sceacan	scóc, scéac	scócon, scéacon	scacen
to lift up, raise	hebban	hóf	hóf	hafen, hæfen
to strike; to beat	sléan	slóȝ, slóh	slóȝon	slæȝen
to stand	standan, stondan	stód	stódon	standen, stonden

Go to Verb paradigms