Kill
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
- The act of killing.
- The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
Kill may refer to:
- The act of causing the death of a living organism
Etymology
From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell), or from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”) (compare Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”), see coll, cole). Compare also Middle Dutch killen, kellen (“to kill”), Middle Low German killen (“to ache strongly, to cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen. Cognate with Albanian qëlloj (“to hit, strike”).
Books
- La Curée (The Kill), a novel by Émile Zola
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Kill" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
