Slade

Slade is a surname of Saxon origin, meaning, variously at different times in different dialects, "a valley, dell, or dingle; an open space between banks or woods; a forest glade; a strip of greensward or of boggy land; the side or slope of a hill." Earliest known references in England as a surname are found in the south west, especially in Devon. Slade is an English name that ultimately derives from the Proto Indo European rootlei or slei, meaning “slide”. Lei/slei is also the ancestor of words such as slippery,slick, loam, and oblivion. In Proto Germanic, slei became the verb slidanan(ancestor of English slide), as well as the noun slido, from which is derived sled,slede, and sleigh. In Old English, this root was probably also the source of slade, which was used to refer both to the sole of a plow and a steep-walled valley (i.e. a valley with “slippery” sides). This latter meaning (“valley, glade”) gradually extended to someone who lived in, or was from, such a place. There are a number of towns in Great Britain and elsewhere called Slade, and it is a surname as well.

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