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† manslaughtn.Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mannslachta , monnslachta (West Frisian manslach ), Middle Dutch manslacht (Dutch manslacht ), Old Saxon manslahta , Old High German manslahta , manslaht (Middle High German manslaht , German Mannschlacht ) < the Germanic base of man n.1 + the Germanic base of slaught n.The α. forms (very common in Old English) show i-mutation, either by regular development of an i-stem form (unlike the West Germanic cognates, but compare sleight n.2) or by analogy with i-mutated sleight n.2 The unmutated β. forms become common only in Middle English, perhaps under the influence of early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic sláttr smiting, mowing: see slaught n.) and of slay v.1 In the language of the Caligula manuscript of Laȝamon's Brut, in which both mutated and unmutated forms of slaught are found, ambiguous use of the graphs <æ>, <e>, and <ea> makes it impossible to ascertain whether forms such as mon-slæht (quot. c1275 at sense 1α. in the β quots.) represent i-mutated forms ( < Old English (Anglian) mansleht ) or unmutated smoothed forms ( < Old English (Anglian) manslæht ). The form mansleaht (quot. c1300 at sense 1β. in the β quots.) in the Otho manuscript of Laȝamon's Brut appears to represent an unmutated unsmoothed form. In sense 2 perhaps influenced by manslaghe n. Obsolete. the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > [noun] α. eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Tiber.) (Junius transcript) (1871) xxi. 166 Se to anra ðara burga geflihð, ðonne mæg he beon orsorg ðæs monslihtes. OE (Nero) v. xxv. 242 Deoflice dæda on morðweorcan & on manslihtan, on stalan & on strudungan. OE (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 19 Of þære heortan cumaþ yfle geþancas, mannslyhtas, unrihthæmedu, forligru, stale, [etc.]. lOE (Laud) anno 1104 Full hergung þurh his hired uppon his wreccea folc wæs, & þær on mang for oft bærneta, & man slihtas. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Duodecim Abusivis (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 103 Ira..macað monslehtas. c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall (1920) I. 217 Lecherie, spusbreche, Roberie, Manslechtes. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 94 Ȝef þer hys mansleȝþe pur. β. OE Form of Confession (Lamb. 427) in (1914) 132 330 Per sacrilegium & homicidium : þurh æbrecðe & þurh manslæht.OE Homily (Hatton 115) in D. G. Scragg (1992) 159 Scyldaþ eow wið þa uncysta þara eahta heafodleahtra, þæt is oformodnes & manslæhtas & mæne aðas, unrihthæmed, morðor & gitsunga, [etc.].c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 109 Nis þis strong monslaht of galnesse awakenet?c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 13889 Muchel mon-slæht wes þere.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Otho) 13891 Of alle þan hundredes þat to-hewe were in þan mochele þringe of þan man-sleahte.c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 8125 (MED) Muche was þe manslaȝt þat þere was ido.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 309 (MED) In þat stryf were meny menslauȝtes in þe citee.a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iii. 2544 Now mai men se moerdre and manslawte.c1426 J. Audelay (1931) 2 Monslaȝt with a rewful steuen, Hit askys vengans.1462 M. Paston in (2004) I. 279 I herd nevyr sey of so myche robry and manslawt in thys contre as is now wyth-in a lytyll tyme.1469–70 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 307 in (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 If ony man..make ony affray, manslaught [emended in ed. to manslaughter], othre kyllyng, by his owne foly and not in defennce.?a1475 (1922) 290 (MED) Delyvere us þe þeff barabas þat for mansclawth presonde was.a1500 (c1410) (Hunterian) (1976) i. 252 (MED) Þe cause of manslaute & of euery opyn synne touchinge manys doom most ben termynd be an oth.the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 57 (MED) Ne beo þu nawit monslaht. ?c1335 in W. Heuser (1904) 116 Manslaȝt þou ne be. 1340 (1866) 171 Me ssel grede to god merci ase his þyef, ase his manslaȝþe. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 94 Manye suche mansleȝþen beþ. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 4498 Marcure was manslaȝt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.eOE |