Etymograph

English

fatliquor

From fat + liquor.

A compound of fat + liquor

Proto-West Germanic *fait

Proto-West Germanic *faitijan ‘to make fat’

Proto-West Germanic *faitid ‘fatted’

Old English fǣtt ‘fatted’

Middle English fat ‘fattened’

English fat

Latin liquere ‘to be fluid or liquid’

Latin liquor ‘fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid’

Anglo-Norman licour

Middle English licour ‘liquid’

English liquor

Today it means

verb To subject (leather) to the process of fatliquoring.

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

Etymograph / fatliquor