Re: vocabulary

--- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> --- # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> <snip>
> > But when I had to say what'd be the name related
> to
> > that root, I realise it
> > would mean both "death" and "murder"
> >
> > Are there natlangs in which "murder" and "death"
> are
> > the same word?
> >
> > Prabably.. but if so, do these languages make
> > difference between "kill" and
> > "die" even if they don't between "murder" and
> > "death"?
>
> What about "slaughter" as in killing an animal for
> food, or "exterminate" as in killing a pestiferous
> insect, or "execute" as in institutional killing of
> a
> criminal?
>
Or "sacrifice" as in killing as part of a religious
ritual, or "suicide" as in killing one's self, or
"Martyrdom" as in allowing one's self to be killed in
service of a higher good.

> --gary
>

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