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slaught

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English

Syllables
slaught
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Killing; slaughter.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English slaught, slagt, slaȝt, from Old English sliht, sleaht, sleht, slieht (“a stroke, a striking, a flash of lightning, slaughter, murder, death by violence, the deadly stroke of disease, battle, what is to be killed, animals for slaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *slahtō, *slahtiz (“beating, hitting, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *slek- (“to beat, pound”). Cognate with Dutch slacht (“slaughter”), German Schlacht (“killing, battle”), Swedish slakt (“slaughter”), Icelandic slátta (“slaughter”). Related to English slay.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: slaught, sliht, *slahtō, *slek-

Usage

Inflected Forms

slaughts (plural)

Derived Forms

manslaught onslaught

Phrases

slaught-beam

Frequently Paired Words

anslaight slaught-beam

Questions

What does slaught mean?
Killing; slaughter.
Where does slaught come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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