spilla
Icelandic
verb-weak
Definitions
- (transitive) to corrupt, to contaminate, to mar
- (transitive) to rape, to abuse or handle with improper treatment; to spoil, despoil, violate (nature, forests...etc)
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse spilla (destroy, spoil) derived 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
- *spilþijaną Proto-Germanic
- spille Norwegian Nynorsk
- spildan Old English
- spillan Old English
- spillen Middle English
- spilla Old Norse
- spilde Danish
- spilling Icelandic
- spaltan Old High German
- spilla Faroese
- spilla Old Swedish