liaison

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*leyǵ-“to bind”
2. Latin · derived fromligātiō
3. French · borrowed fromliaison“binding”
4. English todayliaison

Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligātiōn-; whence the English doublet ligation), derived from ligō (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).

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