liquidation

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*wleykʷ-
2. Proto-Indo-European*wlikʷéh₁yeti
3. Proto-Italic*(w)likʷēō
4. Latinliqueō
5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
6. Classical Latinliquidus
7. Late Latinliquidō
8. Late Latinliquidātu
9. Englishliquidate
10. Late Latinliquidō
11. Italianliquidare
12. Middle Frenchliquider
13. Middle Frenchliquidation
14. English todayliquidation

* From liquidate + -ion (suffix forming nouns denoting an action or process). Liquidate is a learned borrowing from Late Latin liquidātus, the perfect passive participle of liquidō (“to turn into a liquid, melt; to make clear”), from Classical Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid; clear, transparent”) + -ō. * Alternatively, a borrowing from Middle French liquidation, from liquider (“to liquidate”) + -ation (suffix forming nouns denoting an action or process). Liquider is probably a borrowing from Italian liquidare, itself also from the aforementioned Late Latin liquidō by borrowing. Sense 1.2 (“the act of killing or abolishing”) is a semantic loan from Russian ликвида́ция (likvidácija).

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