Etymology

disestablishment

Today it means: The downgrading or dissolution of something that had been established. Full definition →

English establish ← Middle English stablishment ← Old French establissement
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Old Frenchdes-
  7. Latindis-
  8. Middle Englishdis-
  9. Englishdis-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*sth₂éh₁yeti
  12. Proto-Italic*staējō
  13. Proto-Italic*staēō
  14. Proto-Italic*staðlis?
  15. Latinstabilis
  16. Latinstabilīre
  17. Old Frenchestablir
  18. Old Frenchestablissement
  19. Middle Englishstablishment
  20. Englishestablishment
  21. Englishdis-
  22. Englishestablish
  23. English todaydisestablishment

By surface analysis, dis- + establishment or dis- + establish + -ment.

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