English
exsolve
Exsolve comes from Latin exsolvō ‘to unloose, release, free’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewh₁-‘to cut off, release’root as named
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsolvōas exsolvere‘to unloose, release, free’
- Englishtodayexsolve
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewh₁-‘to cut off, release’root as named
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsolvōas exsolvere‘to unloose, release, free’
- Englishtodayexsolve
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- ‘to cut off, release’
so, lose, analysis, solution, lease, analyst, paralysis, resolve, dialysis, palsy, sol, soluble, resolute, paralyze, paralytic, lysis, loess, 29 more
Today it means
verb To separate from one another at a critical point in temperature.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- / exsolve