Etymograph

English

Fresh Kills

Equivalent to the English compound fresh + kills (“creeks”), but possibly a calque of Dutch [Term?].

A compound of fresh + kill ‘creeks’

Proto-Indo-European *preysk-

Proto-Germanic *friskaz

Proto-West Germanic *frisk

Old English fersċ ‘fresh’

Middle English fressh ‘fresh’

English fresh

Middle English killen

English kill

Today it means

name A stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the New York City borough of Staten Island.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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