slay

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To kill; to murder.
2. To eradicate or stamp out.
3. (informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
4. (slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
5. To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
6. (slang) To have sex with.

Noun

Something excellent, amazing, or fashionable.

Noun

Alternative form of sley

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/sleɪ/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English sleen, slayn, from Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”).
Cognate with Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Low German slaan (“hit, strike”), German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.