Etymograph

English

subsidy

Subsidy comes from Old French subside, from Latin subsidium ‘help, support, aid, relief’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*sísdeti‘to be sitting down’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sizdō‘to sit, settle’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsīdō‘sit’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubsido‘to settle, subside’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubsidium‘help, support, aid, relief’
  7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400subside
  8. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400subsidee
  9. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500subsidy
  10. Englishearliest quotation 2013subsidy

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*sísdeti‘to be sitting down’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sizdō‘to sit, settle’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsīdō‘sit’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubsido‘to settle, subside’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubsidium‘help, support, aid, relief’
  7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400subside
  8. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400subsidee
  9. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500subsidy
  10. Englishearliest quotation 2013subsidy

Earliest quotation: 2013, Lexington, Keeping the mighty honest: “British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

set, president, sell, size, seat, method, chair, sitting, sit, session, settle, assess, nest, possess, resident, niche, saddle, siege, exodus, sedan, sediment, nye, reside, residual, sedentary, residue, beset, prasad, cathode, soot, sedative, setter, insidious, anode, sedate, dissident, obsess, chaise, sate, seance, 96 more

Today it means

noun Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed- / subsidy

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