sleeve English · revision 15116

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=before 901|origins=ine-pro *sleubh-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sliːv/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|sleve]], [[inh|ang|slīefe]] (West Saxon), also [[m|ang|slēfe]] (Anglian),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) from [[gem-pro|*slaubjōn]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) probably “that into which the arm slips”.^(Etymonline) It is related to [[m|ang|slēfan|t=to slip on clothes]] and [[m|ang|slūpan|t=to slip, glide]] (see [[slip]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[ine-pro|*sleubh-|t=to slide, slip]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) Hoad compares [[dum|sloove|t=covering]].^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The part of a garment that covers the arm: before 901.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A sleeve worn as a token or borne in heraldry is from about 1374,^(OED 1989) and a piece of armour for the arm from 1465.^(OED 1989) Phrases followed: to pull someone by the sleeve (1390), to have something up one's sleeve (1500–20), and to laugh in one's sleeve (1560).^(OED 1989) The mechanical sense, a tube into which a rod or another tube fits, is by 1864.^(Etymonline) The sleeve as a name for the English Channel translates French ''la Manche''.^(Etymonline) In Sussex dialect the sleeve was a kind of octopus.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 901 – a sleeve.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1374 – a sleeve worn as a favour.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1465 – an arm piece of armour.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1500–20 – up one's sleeve.^(OED 1989)

+ * by 1864 – a mechanical sleeve.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The part of a garment that covers all or part of the arm.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A tube fitted over or into another part, as a liner or [[bush]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A cover protecting a gramophone record.^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''up one's sleeve'': kept secretly in reserve.^(OED 1989)

+ # ''roll up one's sleeves'': to prepare to work hard.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To fit with a sleeve or sleeves.^(AHD)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sleeveless]]

+ * [[sleeved]]

+ * [[sleevelike]]

+ * [[sleevelet]]

+ * [[shirt-sleeve]]

+ * [[foresleeve]]

+ * [[undersleeve]]

+ * [[unsleeved]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[slip]]

+ * [[slipper]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}