Re: vocabulary
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 15, 2005, 8:51 |
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Jean-François Colson wrote:
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> What about the verb "to slay"? Where does it come from?
> Is it related to "slaughter"? Or to the Dutch "slagen"?
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Both, I suspect. 'slay' was originally 'slean' [sl&an] <
'*sleahan'[sl&axan], which looks quite possibly related to the Dutch
[sla:G@n]~[sla:X@n] (I think). Equally, I believe 'slaughter'(as a
noun) comes from OE. 'sleahtre', from the same root. (Just from memory.
May be wrong).
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