English
slothlike
From sloth + -like.
Formed from sloth + -like
Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō ‘slowness, lateness’
Proto-West Germanic *slaiwiþu
Old English slǣwþ ‘sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor’
Middle English slouthe ‘laziness’
English sloth
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of a sloth, especially in being slow and sluggish.
Sources
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