sleat

See also: Sleat

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian slāt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slɪə̯t/

Noun

sleat c (plural sleatten, diminutive sleatsje)

1. ditch, small and narrow artificial waterway

Further reading

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