spillen
Middle English
/ˈspilən/
verb
Definitions
- To slaughter, eliminate; to cause the death of.
- To pass away; to face death or the end of life.
- To demolish, liquidate, or ruin; to make barren or turn into wasteland.
- To extirpate, or extinguish; to totally ruin.
- To smash, split, or sunder.
- To disappear; to be demolished or smashed.
- To cause disorder and chaos; to wreck or totally damage usually used figuratively
- To damage, harm, or hurt; to ruin or interrupt used figuratively
- To spill; to run out or leak; to splurt
- To misuse; to use ineffectively or erroneously.
- (Christianity) To punish by sending to Hell.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English spillan inherited from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (spoil, destroy, ruin, murder, kill).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*spilþijaną
Gloss
spoil, destroy, ruin, murder, kill
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
殺
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antispill English
- forspill English
- overspill English
- prespill English
- spald English
- spill English
- spillable English
- spillback English
- spiller English
- spillest English
- spilleth English
- spillikin English
- spillover English
- spillproof English
- spillway English
- spilly English
- spilt English
- spilth English
- *(s)pel- Proto-Indo-European
- *spillijaną Proto-Germanic
- *spilþijaną Proto-Germanic
- forspillan Old English
- spildan Old English
- spillan Old English
- spilling Old English
- spil Middle English
- spilden Middle English
- spill Middle English
- spille Middle English
- spiller Middle English
- spillyng Middle English
- spyl Middle English
- spyll Middle English
- spyllyn Middle English
- spilla Old Norse
- spaltan Old High German