having no husband or wife, in an unmarried state; celibate," late 14c., from Old Frenchsoul"only, alone, just," from Latinsolus"alone, only, single, sole; forsaken; extraordinary," a word of unknown origin, perhaps related tose"oneself," from PIE reflexive root*swo-(for which seeso)....
some adjective quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity somehow adverb in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means sometimes adverb on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always somewhere noun an indefi...
Old Frenchconfederacion(14c.), from Late Latinconfoederationem(nominativeconfoederatio), noun of action from past-participle stem ofconfoederare"to unite in a league," from assimilated form ofcom"with, together" (seecon-) +foederare(from suffixed form of PIE root*bheidh-"to trust, confide,...
in Old French: 1.sol"bottom, ground, soil" (12c., from Latinsolum"soil, ground;" seesole(n.1)); 2.soeul,sueil"threshold, area, place" (from Latinsolium"seat," from PIE root*sed-(1) "to sit"); 3.soil,soille"a miry place," fromsoillier"splatter with mud" (seesoil(v.))...
c. 1600,soliloquie, from Late Latinsoliloquium"a talking to oneself," from Latinsolus"alone" (seesole(adj.)) +loqui"to speak" (from PIE root*tolkw-"to speak"). The word was in English in the Latin form in 1590s. Earlier it was used in translations of Latin"Liber Soliloquiorum"...
Watkins explains it as from Proto-Germanic*e-mot-ja-, with a prefix of uncertain meaning + Germanic*mot-"ability, leisure," possibly from PIE root*med-"take appropriate measures." A sense evolution from "at leisure" to "containing nothing, unoccupied" is found in several languages, such as...
This in turn is reconstructed in Watkins to be from PIE *drew-o-, a suffixed form of the root *deru- "be firm, solid, steadfast." With Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)). Compare troth, truce, trust (n.), tree (n.). English and most other IE languages do ...