Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Alleviation; abatement; check. · An alloy.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm. · To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate. · To subside, abate, become peaceful. · To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
From Middle English alayen, aleyen, aleggen, from Old English āleċġan (“to put, place, lay down, lay aside, throw down, give up, cease from, abandon; put down, allay, suppress, abolish, conquer, destroy, overcome, refute; lay upon, inflict, impose upon; diminish, take away, refuse, lessen, withhold”), from Proto-Germanic *uzlagjaną (“to lay down”), equivalent to a- + lay. Cognate with German erlegen (“to impose, cause to succumb, kill”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (uslagjan, “to lay down”). In Middle English the word was identical to forms of allege and alloy, leading to much overlapping of senses.
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- Inherited-form mentionalayenenm
- Inherited-form mentionāleċġanang
- Inherited-form mention*uzlagjanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionerlegende
- Cognate mention𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽got
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