Slacke
German Low German
Alternative forms
- Slack
Etymology
From Middle Low German slecke, from Old Saxon *slicko, from Proto-West Germanic *slikkō, from Proto-Germanic *slikkô, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).[1] Cognate with Dutch slek, slak (“snail”).
Noun
Slacke m (plural Slacken)
- snail
References
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slak1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute