sleight
English
noun
Definitions
- Cunning; craft; artful practice.
- An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
- Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sleight derived from Old Norse slœgð (cunning) derived from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*slōgiþō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anslaight English
- sleightful English
- sleightly English
- sleighty English
- sliness English
- sly English
- slyboots English
- slyish English
- slyly English
- slyness English
- unsly English
- *slōgiþō Proto-Germanic
- sløgd Norwegian Nynorsk
- sliht Old English
- sleight Middle English
- sleightly Middle English
- sleighty Middle English
- sly Middle English
- slœgr Old Norse
- slœgð Old Norse
- slei Welsh
- aenslag Middle Dutch
- sløghþ Old Swedish