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Slam

2 stages from Scandinavian to English.

Today it means to shut or put something down forcefully and loudly
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Stage 1 of 2
slamra
Scandinavian · medieval
"to bang shut"
to bang shut violently, an imitation of the sound itself
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Stage 2 of 2
slam
English · 1600s
"to shut or put down something forcefully"
settled as the English word for shutting something forcefully
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