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How did 'ликвиди́ровать' semantically shift to mean 'abolish' and 'destroy, kill'?
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I was reading the etymology of the English 'liquidate', when I read on Wiktionary that
The sense "to kill, do away with" is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ), ultimately from Latin liquidus.
This sense wasn't in the Latin etymon, and thus must have commenced in Russian?
Thus how did meaning #2 (the original) develop to 1 and 3? What semantic notions underlie them?
I know that live humans can be killed by dissolving them in acid, but this method of killing appears too uncommon (I hope!), unethical and frightful to beget this semantic shift?
- to eliminate, to abolish
- to dissolve
- to stamp out, to do away with, to destroy, to kill (off)
- to liquidate
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I was reading the etymology of the English 'liquidate', when I read on Wiktionary that
The sense "to kill, do away with" is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ), ultimately from Latin liquidus.
This sense wasn't in the Latin etymon, and thus must have commenced in Russian?
Thus how did meaning #2 (the original) develop to 1 and 3? What semantic notions underlie them?
I know that live humans can be killed by dissolving them in acid, but this method of killing appears too uncommon (I hope!), unethical and frightful to beget this semantic shift?
- to eliminate, to abolish
- to dissolve
- to stamp out, to do away with, to destroy, to kill (off)
- to liquidate
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asked 4 hours ago
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I was reading the etymology of the English 'liquidate', when I read on Wiktionary that
The sense "to kill, do away with" is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ), ultimately from Latin liquidus.
This sense wasn't in the Latin etymon, and thus must have commenced in Russian?
Thus how did meaning #2 (the original) develop to 1 and 3? What semantic notions underlie them?
I know that live humans can be killed by dissolving them in acid, but this method of killing appears too uncommon (I hope!), unethical and frightful to beget this semantic shift?
- to eliminate, to abolish
- to dissolve
- to stamp out, to do away with, to destroy, to kill (off)
- to liquidate
этимология
asked 4 hours ago
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1185
I was reading the etymology of the English 'liquidate', when I read on Wiktionary that
The sense "to kill, do away with" is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ), ultimately from Latin liquidus.
This sense wasn't in the Latin etymon, and thus must have commenced in Russian?
Thus how did meaning #2 (the original) develop to 1 and 3? What semantic notions underlie them?
I know that live humans can be killed by dissolving them in acid, but this method of killing appears too uncommon (I hope!), unethical and frightful to beget this semantic shift?
- to eliminate, to abolish
- to dissolve
- to stamp out, to do away with, to destroy, to kill (off)
- to liquidate
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ликвидировать initially meant "to convert to liquid assets", as of stock, capital etc.
As converting a business to cash would mean selling it, this word came to mean "to get rid of" and then, by extension, acquired the metaphorical meaning "to kill".
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ликвидировать initially meant "to convert to liquid assets", as of stock, capital etc.
As converting a business to cash would mean selling it, this word came to mean "to get rid of" and then, by extension, acquired the metaphorical meaning "to kill".
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ликвидировать initially meant "to convert to liquid assets", as of stock, capital etc.
As converting a business to cash would mean selling it, this word came to mean "to get rid of" and then, by extension, acquired the metaphorical meaning "to kill".
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ликвидировать initially meant "to convert to liquid assets", as of stock, capital etc.
As converting a business to cash would mean selling it, this word came to mean "to get rid of" and then, by extension, acquired the metaphorical meaning "to kill".
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ликвидировать initially meant "to convert to liquid assets", as of stock, capital etc.
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