The story
- Latin · derived fromresolvō“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”
- Old French · derived fromresolver
- Middle English · inherited fromresolven
- English todayresolve
From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of re-solve.
Words from the same roots
Latinresolvō all →
resoluble
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.