verb/de.lje/
to untie, loosen, release
“Le vin délie la langue, il entrouvre le cœur / Il donnera ce soir le ton et la couleur” — Wine loosens the tongue, it opens up the heart / It will give this evening tone and colour
Related: sans bourse délier
Inherited from Old French (and Middle French) deslier, from Vulgar Latin disligāre (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Latin dis- + ligō (“tie, bind”). Compare Occitan desligar, Catalan deslligar, Portuguese desligar, Spanish desliar, Friulian disleâ, Italian slegare, Romanian dezlega.