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.





  1. This sense wasn't in the Latin etymon, and thus must have commenced in Russian?


  2. 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?





  1. to eliminate, to abolish

  2. to dissolve

  3. to stamp out, to do away with, to destroy, to kill (off)

  4. 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.





  1. This sense wasn't in the Latin etymon, and thus must have commenced in Russian?


  2. 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?





  1. to eliminate, to abolish

  2. to dissolve

  3. to stamp out, to do away with, to destroy, to kill (off)

  4. 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.





  1. This sense wasn't in the Latin etymon, and thus must have commenced in Russian?


  2. 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?





  1. to eliminate, to abolish

  2. to dissolve

  3. to stamp out, to do away with, to destroy, to kill (off)

  4. 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.





  1. This sense wasn't in the Latin etymon, and thus must have commenced in Russian?


  2. 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?





  1. to eliminate, to abolish

  2. to dissolve

  3. to stamp out, to do away with, to destroy, to kill (off)

  4. 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.



        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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