English

selldown

Deverbal from sell down.

A compound of sell + down

Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- ‘to take’

Proto-Germanic *saljaną ‘to offer’

Proto-West Germanic *salljan ‘to hand over’

Old English sellan ‘give’

Middle English sellen ‘to gift’

English sell

Old English dūne ‘down’

Middle English doun

English down

Today it means

noun The selling of sufficient shares to significantly reduce their price.

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

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