Re: vocabulary

On Friday, April 15, 2005 5:18 AM, # 1 wrote:

> Gary Shannon wrote:
>
>>--- 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.
>
> Concerning "suicide", I don't see any reason for not using a middle voice
> with the verb "to kill" there are probably not independant roots for
> "suicide" in all the languages considering that much contries don't have a
> high number a suicides..
>
> For "slaughter", "exterminate", "execute", "sacrifice", and "martyrdom" I
> tought I'd make independant roots
>
> Are there really so much ways of killing? killing someone else, killing
> animals, killing injurious animals/insects/plants, killing as act of law,
> killing for religion, killing oneself, killing oneself for a "higher
> good"...
>
> (Out Topic question: why are there some much way to die and so less to
> born
> and live?)
>
>
> I'll keep to basic vocabulary with "kill" and "die", and if I need to,
> I'll
> create that "death's lexicon"
>
> - Max
>
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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