köken: From late Old Danish i hæl, from Old Norse í hel (“to the netherworld”). Compare Swedish ihjäl and Norwegian Nynorsk i hel.
slå ihjel – kill, literally: beat to death
slå sig ihjel – lose one's life, be killed
slå tiden ihjel – kill time (make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important)
Norveççei hjel
Katalancaa mort
nni hel
Etimoloji
From Late Old Swedish ihiäl, from Early Old Swedish i hæl, from Old Norse í hel (“to the netherworld”) (see hel, from Proto-Germanic *haljō), cognate with Danish ihjel and Norwegian Nynorsk i hel.