Unscramble

m 3 a 1 n 1 s 1 l 1 a 1 u 1 g 2 h 4 t 1 e 1 r 1

12 letters · 18 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun homicide without malice aforethought

originFrom 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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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