livid

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)leh₃y-
2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)lih₃-wó-
3. Proto-Italic*slīwēō
4. Latinlīveō
5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
6. Latinlīvidus
7. Middle Frenchlivide
8. Middle Englishlivid
9. English todaylivid

From Middle English livid, livide, from Old French livide, from Latin līvidus (“bluish, livid; envious”), from līveō (“be of a bluish color or livid; envy”), from Proto-Italic *sliwēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). See also Old English slā (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slyvas (“plum”), and Russian and Old Church Slavonic слива (sliva, “plum”).

Words from the same roots