impliki

Two senses, and the second grew out of the first. Physically, impliki is to tangle something up so it cannot move: feet in a rope, a fish in a net. Figuratively it is to entangle a person in an affair, which is what English does with implicate. Impliki iun en proceson is to drag somebody into a court case, and it is the commonest use of the word in print.

No suffix in here, whatever it looks like. Esperanto has a technical suffix -ik- that names a field of study, giving matematiko, tekniko, logiko. Impliki does not contain it. The root is implik-, imported whole from Latin implicare, and there is no impl- underneath waiting to be found. Same story as kombini and its imaginary -in-, and as procento and its imaginary po-. The international roots come in as single pieces and their Latin joints are decoration.

The family, and the useful opposite. Implikiĝi is to get tangled up, implikaĵo is a tangle or a complication, implikita describes the state, and malimpliki is to disentangle, to sort out, which is a satisfying word to have. Beside it, komplika at rank 1890 means complicated in the ordinary sense of having many parts. The difference is worth keeping: a komplika machine has a lot going on, an implikita situation has got itself into a knot.