Sleigh
/sleɪ/noun
A vehicle on runners for traveling over snow or ice.
Did you know?The modern English word came through Dutch, and its earliest relatives point to a vehicle designed to slide over ice and snow, not to anything mystical at all.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sleyd-
“to slip or slide”
Old Dutch
Old Dutch
*slēda
“a sledge, sled-like vehicle”
Middle Dutch
Dutch
slee
“a sleigh or sled”
17th Century
English
sleigh
“a light sled or sledge used on snow”
Modern English
English
sleigh
“a vehicle on runners for travel over snow or ice”