The story
- Old English · inherited frommansliht“murder; killing of a person”
- Middle English · inherited frommanslaȝter
- English todaymanslaughter
From Middle English manslaȝter, manslauter, equivalent to man + slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mansliht (“murder; killing of a person”), from mann (“person”) + sliht (“killing”), see manslaught. Cognate with Scots manslauchter (“homicide”). Compare also Old Frisian monslaga (“murder”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishmansliht all →
manslaught
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.