slak

From Dutch slak, from Middle Dutch slecke, slacke, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *slikkō.

• IPA^(key): /slak/

slak (plural slakke)

1. snail

• slak

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /slɑk/
• Hyphenation: slak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

From Middle Dutch slecke, slacke, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *slikkō. Cognate with Luxembourgish Schleek.

slak f or m (plural slakken, diminutive slakje n)

1. snail, slug (any gastropod)

• Afrikaans: slak

From Middle Low German slagge, whence also German Schlacke, English slag. See the latter.

slak f (plural slakken)

1. slag (the impurities which result and are separated out when melting a metal or refining it from its ore)
2. hard, molten leftovers of burnt coal and other solid fuels

• klas

From Old Norse slakr

slak (masculine and feminine slak, neuter slakt, definite singular and plural slake, comparative slakere, indefinite superlative slakest, definite superlative slakeste)

1. slack (rope, sails)
2. gentle (curve, slope)
3. loose (ice)
4. weak, feeble

• “slak” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “slak_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse slakr

slak (masculine and feminine slak, neuter slakt, definite singular and plural slake, comparative slakare, indefinite superlative slakast, definite superlative slakaste)

1. slack (rope, sails)
2. gentle (curve, slope)
3. loose (ice)
4. weak, feeble

• slakk

• “slak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Slavic *sъvolkъ.

• IPA^(key): /slâːk/

slȃk m (Cyrillic spelling сла̑к)

1. bindweed

• “slak” in Hrvatski jezični portal

slak c (plural slakken, diminutive slakje)

1. snail

• “slak (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011