Etymograph

English

exolve

Exolve comes from Latin exsolvō ‘to unloose, release, free’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewh₁-1‘to cut off, release’root named by Wiktionary
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsolvō1as exolvō‘to unloose, release, free’
  3. Englishtodayexolve1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English exolve

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewh₁-Wiktionary, English exolve‘to cut off, release’root named by Wiktionary
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsolvōWiktionary, English exolveas exolvō‘to unloose, release, free’
  3. EnglishtodayexolveWiktionary, English exolve

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- ‘to cut off, release’

so, lose, analysis, solution, lease, analyst, solve, paralysis, sol, dialysis, palsy, resolute, paralyze, insoluble, paralytic, lysis, loess, 28 more

Today it means

verb To loose.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “exolve”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- / exolve

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