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Slaughter

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means the killing of animals for food, or the brutal, violent killing of people
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Stage 1 of 2
slatr
Old Norse · medieval
"butcher's meat"
butcher's meat, the killing of animals for food
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Stage 2 of 2
slaughter
English · 1300s
"the killing of animals for food, or brutal mass killing"
settled as the English word for the killing of animals for food, or mass killing
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