manslaga
Old English
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editFrom Proto-West Germanic *manaslagō. Cognate with Old Saxon manslago and Old High German manslago. The expected Old Frisian cognate, monslaga, exists but has come to mean "murder." Equivalent to mann (“person”) + slaga (“killer”).
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editmanslaga m
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editDeclension of manslaga (weak)
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editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mann-slaga”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.