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schächten

17th century, from Hebrew שָׁחַט (šāḥaṭ). The umlaut possibly spread from the derivative Schächter (“Jewish butcher”), where it may have sprung from analogy with unrelated Schlächter (“butcher”), but a verb form with -a- seems unattested.

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c. 1910Modern Hebrew

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