slaught – English noun declension

Noun: slaught

Singular	slaught
Plural	slaughts

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like slaught

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle English slaught, slagt, slaȝt, from Old English sliht, sleaht, sleht, slieht (“a stroke, a striking, a flash of lightning, slaughter, murder, death by violence, the deadly stroke of disease, battle, what is to be killed, animals for slaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *slahtō, *slahtiz (“beating, hitting, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *slek- (“to beat, pound”).
2. Cognate with Dutch slacht (“slaughter”), German Schlacht (“killing, battle”), Swedish slakt (“slaughter”), Icelandic slátta (“slaughter”). Related to English slay. See: Middle English Nouns 'slaught', Old English Nouns 'sliht', Dutch Nouns 'slacht', German Nouns 'Schlacht', Swedish Nouns 'slakt', Icelandic Nouns 'slátta', English Nouns 'slay'.

Verbs referencing "slaught"

Swedish Nouns slakt.