Timeline for How did 'ликвиди́ровать' semantically shift to mean 'abolish' and 'destroy, kill'?
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| Apr 24, 2019 at 8:40 | comment | added | Quassnoi♦ | It says "ultimately from Latin", which means it has a root of Latin origin but it's not certain how exactly did this word end up in Russian: might be through French or through German. It does not mean that Latin itself had such a word. As I said, the first mention in the corpus is from 1860's, so the borrowing should not have happened long before that. | |
| Apr 24, 2019 at 1:47 | comment | added | user9822 | @Quassnoi The first quote in my post (from Wiktionary) contends that ликвидировать originated from Latin. Do you know in what year approximately? If this borrowing happened after modern Russian's onset in 1800, then I am referring to ликвидировать before modern Russian. | |
| Apr 23, 2019 at 8:25 | comment | added | Quassnoi♦ | What early dialects? The earliest mention in the corpus is from around 1860's, and it's a certain borrowing from a European language, most probably French. The meaning of "to get rid of" is around 1890's, that of "to kill" is early 1920's. | |
| Apr 23, 2019 at 5:15 | comment | added | user9822 | Thanks! Just to clarify: did 'liquid assets' exist back then where the early dialects of Russian were spoken? | |
| Apr 22, 2019 at 16:09 | comment | added | V.V. | Источник. ЛИКВИДИРОВАТЬ новолатинск. liquidare, от лат. liquere, быть чистым. Уплачивать долги и прекращать торговые дела. Объяснение 25000 иностранных слов, вошедших в употребление в русский язык, с означением их корней.- Михельсон А.Д., 1865. | |
| Apr 22, 2019 at 9:47 | history | answered | Quassnoi♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |