Probably a variation ofslug(“to hit very hard”) orslough.
Possibly related toslag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.
slog (countable anduncountable,pluralslogs)
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) Along,tediouswalk ormarch.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) Ahard,persistenteffort,session ofwork, orperiod.
1996 February 11,Michael Gorra, “Tunnel Vision”, inThe New York Times[1]:It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervatingslog of war.
2017 November 14,Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, inBBC Sport[2]:England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hardslog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.
2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, inThe Seattle Times[3]:There, despite the longslog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.
- (countable, cricket) Anaggressiveshot played with littleskill.
hard persistent effort, session of work]
slog (third-person singular simple presentslogs,present participleslogging,simple past and past participleslogged)
- (intransitive) Towalkslowly ordoggedly, encounteringresistance.
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:walk
1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, inTrains Illustrated, page419:The leading engine was one of the Class Y62-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutesslogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
- 2014,Paul Salopek,Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[4]
- A miraculous desert rain. Weslog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
- (intransitive, by extension) Towork slowly and deliberately at atedious task.
- Tostrike something with aheavyblow, especially aball with abat.
to walk slowly, encountering resistance
to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
slog
- pasttense ofslå
FromOld Irishsluicid,[2] fromProto-Celtic*slunketi (compareWelshllyncu andBretonlonkañ).
slog (present analyticslogann,future analyticslogfaidh,verbal nounslogadh,past participleslogtha)
- toswallow
| verbal noun | slogadh |
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| past participle | slogtha |
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| tense | singular | plural | relative | autonomous |
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| first | second | third | first | second | third |
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| indicative |
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| present | slogaim | slogann tú;
slogair† | slogann sé, sí | slogaimid | slogann sibh | slogann siad;
slogaid† | ashlogann; ashlogas /
aslogann* | slogtar |
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| past | shlog mé;shlogas | shlog tú;shlogais | shlog sé, sí | shlogamar;shlog muid | shlog sibh;shlogabhair | shlog siad;shlogadar | ashlog /
arshlog* | slogadh |
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| past habitual | shlogainn /slogainn‡‡ | shlogtá /slogtᇇ | shlogadh sé, sí /slogadh sé, s퇇 | shlogaimis;shlogadh muid /slogaimis‡‡;slogadh muid‡‡ | shlogadh sibh /slogadh sibh‡‡ | shlogaidís;shlogadh siad /slogaidís‡‡;slogadh siad‡‡ | ashlogadh /
aslogadh* | shlogtaí /slogta퇇 |
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| future | slogfaidh mé;
slogfad | slogfaidh tú;
slogfair† | slogfaidh sé, sí | slogfaimid;
slogfaidh muid | slogfaidh sibh | slogfaidh siad;
slogfaid† | ashlogfaidh; ashlogfas /
aslogfaidh* | slogfar |
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| conditional | shlogfainn /slogfainn‡‡ | shlogfá /slogfᇇ | shlogfadh sé, sí /slogfadh sé, s퇇 | shlogfaimis;shlogfadh muid /slogfaimis‡‡;slogfadh muid‡‡ | shlogfadh sibh /slogfadh sibh‡‡ | shlogfaidís;shlogfadh siad /slogfaidís‡‡;slogfadh siad‡‡ | ashlogfadh /
aslogfadh* | shlogfaí /slogfa퇇 |
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| subjunctive |
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| present | gosloga mé;
goslogad† | gosloga tú;
goslogair† | gosloga sé, sí | goslogaimid;
gosloga muid | gosloga sibh | gosloga siad;
goslogaid† | — | goslogtar |
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| past | dáslogainn | dáslogtá | dáslogadh sé, sí | dáslogaimis;
dáslogadh muid | dáslogadh sibh | dáslogaidís;
dáslogadh siad | — | dáslogtaí |
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| imperative |
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| – | slogaim | slog | slogadh sé, sí | slogaimis | slogaigí;
slogaidh† | slogaidís | — | slogtar |
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* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that triggereclipsis
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^“slog”, inHistorical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sluicid, slocaid”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^Hamilton, John Noel (1974)A Phonetic Study of the Irish of Tory Island, Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 3), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University Belfast, page323
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “slogaim”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page657
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sloigim”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page657
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “slog”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
slōg
- first/third-personsingularpreteriteindicative ofslēan
Inherited fromProto-Slavic*ložiti.
slȍg m (Cyrillic spellingсло̏г)
- syllable
- stack,pile
slog
- pastindicative ofslå
