sleen

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === scle, sclee, sle, slee, slen, sleyn, slo, slon slæn, slea, slean (Early Middle English); sley, sleye, scloo, sloo (Late Middle English) sla, slan, slaw, slay, slaye (Northern, Northeast Midland) === Etymology === Inherited from Old English slēan, from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /slɛ̝ːn/ (from Old English slēan) IPA(key): /slɔ̝ːn/, (Northern) /slaː/ (from Anglian Old English slān or Old Norse slá) IPA(key): /ˈslæi̯(ə)n/ (from the past participle slayen, slayn) === Verb === sleen (third-person singular simple present sleeth, present participle sleynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative slough, past participle slayen) To strike, beat, or hit: To cut; to strike into pieces. To throw or force downwards. To strike a fire (with flint) To kill; to cause the death of: To kill by execution or in battle. To kill or slaughter an animal or animals. To be killed (from); to suffer death (by) To destroy or demolish: To destroy or extinguish the soul. To damage or destroy (an abstraction, place or thing) Synonyms: destroyen, merren, stroyen To overcome or eliminate (an abstraction, adversary, or disease) To extinguish (a fire); to adulterate (a compound) To ruin or undermine (a person): To emotionally overwhelm or roil. ==== Usage notes ==== The conjugation of this verb is highly variable; the forms given below are only a representative selection. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: slay (obsolete slea) Middle Scots: sla, slay Scots: slay ==== References ==== “slēn, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “slay, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. Rettger, James Frederick (1934), “The Development of Ablaut in the Strong Verbs of the East Midland Dialects of Middle English”, in Language (Language Dissertations; 16)‎[1], volume 10, number 4, Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, part 1 (Verbs of the Regular Ablaut Classes), chapter 8 (General Conclusions), page 91.