köken: From Middle High German slīfen (strong verb), from Old High German slīfan, from Proto-West Germanic *slīpan, from Proto-Germanic *slīpaną (“to slide, to whet”). The strong verb was restricted in Modern German to the sense “whet”, the sense “slide” was redistributed to the weak verb (etymology 2), although the split is not entirely clear-cut in practice (see usage notes below). This development…
köken: Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin sablum, from Latin sabulum, alternative form of sabulō. Compare sablon, which was used more often in Old French. Compare Italian sabbia, Occitan sabla.
aile: bac à sable, banc de sable, chat des sables, château de sable, grain de sable, jeu bac à sable, marchand de sable, sablage, sable mouvant, sabler
köken: Inherited from Proto-Malayic *pasir, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasiʀ (“sandbank, shoal in river or sea”). Cognate with Tagalog pasig (“a river that flows into the sea; sandy bank of a river”).