slic

Old English

Alternative forms

• sliċċ

Etymology

From the same source as slean (“to hit”), both related to or derived from Proto-West Germanic *slahan (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slit͡ʃ/

Noun

sliċ n

1. hammer

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “slic”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 961