English Explanatory Dictionary

Schlei

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An estuary in Germany, in the region of Schleswig-Holstein.

Word forms

Schlei

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schlei, found in Old Saxon as Slia (modern Low German Slie) and Old Danish as Slæ, compare slæe (“algae, seaweed”)," presumably related to Proto-Germanic *slīmą.

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