Where does “vokills” come from?
vokills (English) comes from English kills, 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.
vokills (English): vocals performed in the death growl style
Definitions
- vocals performed in the death growl style
Ancestry of “vokills”, step by step
vokills traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English kills
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | kills | plural of kill; Third-person singular simple... |
| 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 vocals
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vocals | plural of vocal; API pl; The words of a song... |