slinta

From Proto-Germanic *slintanan,^[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip, slide; to be slippery, slick”).^[2]

slinta (present slinter, preterite slant, supine sluntit, imperative slint)

1. to slip so as to (nearly) have an accident or other undesirable outcome

   Jag slant med sågen och sågade nästan av mig fingret

   I slipped with the saw and nearly sawed my finger off

2. (figurative, in "slinta med tungan") to have a slip of the tongue

   Jag menade inte det jag sa. Jag slant med tungan.

   I didn't mean what I said. I had a slip of the tongue.

3. to lose one's footing; to slip

   Synonym: halka

   Hon slant på isfläcken

   She slipped on the ice patch

• halka
• slinka (“slip as swift and often more or less imperceptible movement”)

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