Re: vocabulary
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 14, 2005, 20:06 |
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--- # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
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> 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?
--gary