[tied] Re: Ergative Stage of PIE

>Semantically, 'kill' is a two-participant verb. To 'kill'
>without someone doing it, is impossible. And someone must
>'kill' someone. This two-participant characteristic makes
>'kill' transitive.

He kills = he does murder/slaughter = he is a murderer/works in an
abbatoir. "Kill" is also intransitive.

I shoulda used another verb.