Where does “kill” come from?
kill (German) comes from German killen, 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.
kill (German): singular imperative of killen; first-person...
Definitions
- singular imperative of killen; first-person...
Ancestry of “kill”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | German | killen | to shiver; to frag, kill |
| 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 |