Where does “doodskiet” come from?
doodskiet (Afrikaans) comes from Afrikaans dood, from Dutch dood, from Dutch doden, from Middle Dutch dôden, from Old Dutch dōden, from Proto-West Germanic daudijan, from Proto-Germanic daudijaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
doodskiet (Afrikaans): shoot dead
Definitions
- shoot dead
Ancestry of “doodskiet”, step by step
doodskiet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Afrikaans dood
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afrikaans | dood | dead; exhausted; listless; fatigued; death; the... |
| 2 | Dutch | dood | dead; A lot; death |
| 3 | Dutch | doden | to kill; plural of dode |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | dôden | to kill |
| 5 | Old Dutch | dōden | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | daudijan | to kill |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | daudijaną | to make dead, kill |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Afrikaans skiet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afrikaans | skiet | shoot |
| 2 | Dutch | schieten | to shoot, fire; to shoot, to kill; to rush, to... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | schieten | to shoot, to move quickly in some direction; to... |
| 4 | Old Dutch | skietan | to shoot; to shoot at |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | skeutan | to shoot |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | skeutaną | to shoot |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kewd- | to advance, push; to drive, propel |