to blunder (to make a blunder, to make a clumsy or stupid mistake)
köken: From bak (“buck”) + -ot (accusative suffix) + lő (“to shoot”), literally “to shoot a buck”, a calque of German einen Bock schießen. Its origin in German is related to 16th century competitions organized in shooting associations where the lowest ranked shooter received a he-goat as a consolation prize.
köken: From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sráydʰati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sráydʰati, from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old English slīdan (whence English slide).
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Etimoloji
Onomatopoeic. The sense to blunder was back-formed from flater, itself derives from flateren in the older sense.