Where does “self-killing” come from?
self-killing (English) comes from English self-kill, from English kill, from Middle English killen, from Old English cwellan, from Proto-West Germanic kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic kwaljaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
self-killing (English): present participle of self-kill; The killing of...
Definitions
- present participle of self-kill; The killing of...
Ancestry of “self-killing”, step by step
self-killing traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English self-kill
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | self-kill | To kill oneself; commit suicide |
| 2 | English | kill | To put to death; to extinguish the life of; To... |
| 3 | Middle English | killen | — |
| 4 | Old English | cwellan | to kill; to slay |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | kwalljan | to make suffer, to hurt |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kwaljaną | to make suffer, to hurt |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English killing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | killing | present participle of kill; That literally... |
| 2 | Middle English | kyllyng | The action of killing somebody, slaying |
| 3 | Middle English | -ynge | Alternative form of -ing |
| 4 | Old English | -ung | forming nouns from verbs, denoting verbal action... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -ungō | -ing, -ion. "Forms gerund nouns from verbs." |