## Etymology
From tax + -ing. Tax is from Old French taxer ('to impose a tax'), from Latin taxare ('to assess, handle, censure'), frequentative of tangere ('to touch').

## AI Etymology
Taxing comes from tax + -ing. Tax is from Old French taxer ('to impose a tax'), from Latin taxare ('to assess, handle, censure'), frequentative of tangere ('to touch'). The historical chain includes Latin taxare and Latin tangere. The quoted older senses, "to impose a tax", "to assess, handle, censure", and "to touch", supply the semantic anchors for taxing. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word taxing carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "physically or mentally demanding; burdensome". Related English forms include tax and taxation. The result is a adj and verb whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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