Where does “killeth” come from?
Killeth derives from English kill, from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille, from Latin colligo meaning "to gather together," ultimately from Latin ligo meaning "to bind."
killeth (English): third-person singular simple present indicative...
Definitions
- third-person singular simple present indicative...
Ancestry of “killeth”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | kill | To put to death; to extinguish the life of; To... |
| 2 | Middle English | killen | — |
| 3 | Old English | cwellan | to kill; to slay |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | kwalljan | to make suffer, to hurt |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kwaljaną | to make suffer, to hurt |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |