UrsprungFrom Old Norse sléttr, from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”). Cognate with Swedish slät (“smooth”), English slight, Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Norwegian slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”).
- common-gendera plain (a large expanse of relatively flat land)
- form-of, indefinite, neuter, singularindefinite neuter singular of slät
Formerslätt(indefinite, nominative, singular) · slätts(genitive, indefinite, singular) · slätten(definite, nominative, singular) · slättens(definite, genitive, singular) · slätter(indefinite, nominative, plural) · slätters(genitive, indefinite, plural) · slätterna(definite, nominative, plural) · slätternas(definite, genitive, plural)