Re: vocabulary
| From: | René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 15, 2005, 14:42 |
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Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>Jean-François Colson wrote:
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>>
>> What about the verb "to slay"? Where does it come from?
>> Is it related to "slaughter"? Or to the Dutch "slagen"?
>>
>
>Both, I suspect. 'slay' was originally 'slean' [sl&an] <
>'*sleahan'[sl&axan], which looks quite possibly related to the Dutch
>[sla:G@n]~[sla:X@n] (I think). Equally, I believe 'slaughter'(as a
>noun) comes from OE. 'sleahtre', from the same root. (Just from memory.
>May be wrong).
>
Dutch has:
slaan - to hit (the past tense has |g|: "ik sloeg" = I hit-PAST)
verslaan - to defeat (="beat")
slachten - to kill (of animals: "de slager" = the butcher)
afslachten - to slaughter (of people)
slagen - to succeed (I don't know if this comes from the same root)
quite likely to be mixed up, I think :)
slaan - sloeg - geslagen
slachten - slachtte - geslacht
slagen - slaagde - geslaagd
René (who really likes his L1)
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