qualta-

verb. to kill, murder

A neologism for “to kill, murder” appearing in ABNW (ABNW) from the early 2000’s, a causative variant of qual- “to die (painfully)”, hence literally “to make die”. The same document suggests a similar formation for firta- “to kill” for accidentally causing death, but that seems unlikely to me, since fir- seems to be limited to peaceful deaths.

Derivations

• √KWAL “die, pain, die, pain, [ᴹ√] die in pain”

firta-

verb. to kill

Derivations

• √PHIR “exhale, expire, breathe out, exhale, expire, breathe out; [ᴹ√] die of natural causes”