English

Free-Soilism

From free + soil + -ism.

Formed from free + soil + -ism

Proto-Indo-European *preyH- ‘to please; to love’

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Proto-Germanic *frijaz ‘free’

Proto-West Germanic *frī ‘free’

Old English frēo ‘free, at liberty’

Middle English fre ‘having the status of a freeman’

English free

Middle English soile ‘ground, earth’

English soil

Today it means

noun The principles of the Free Soil Party, which opposed slavery in the United States in the mid-19th century.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Free-Soilism