Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *slībaną Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_slībaną

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*limāti to polish, sharpen līma carpenter's file *(s)ley-

verb Strong class 1 to split Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (‘smooth; slick; sticky; slimy’), the same source as *slīmą (‘slime’) and *līmaz (‘glue, clay, lime’). For the semantics, compare Proto-Germanic *slīpaną (‘to whet, sharpen’), Old High German slīman (‘to make smooth’), Proto-Celtic *limāti (‘to polish, sharpen’) and Latin līma (‘carpenter's file’), from extensions of the same root.