Etymology

abattage

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Today it means: The slaughter of animals, especially diseased ones to limit the spread of the disease. Full definition →

French abattage ← Middle French abbatre ← Old French abatre
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-
  6. Latinbattuō
  7. Latinbattō
  8. Late Latinabbattō
  9. Old Frenchabatre
  10. Middle Frenchabbatre
  11. Frenchabattre
  12. Frenchabattage
  13. English todayabattage

Borrowed from French abattage.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.