Schlei

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  1. 1
    An estuary in Germany, in the region of Schleswig-Holstein.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schlei, found in Old Saxon as Slia (modern Low German Slie) and Old Danish as Slæ, compare slæe (“algae, seaweed”)," presumably related to Proto-Germanic *slīmą.

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schleswig holstein

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