Where does “blissful” come from?
Blissful comes from Middle English blisful, formed with the suffix -ful (Middle English -ful, Old English -ful, Proto-Germanic -fullaz) added to a root ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁-, meaning to fill.
blissful (English): Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing,...
Definitions
- Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing,...
Ancestry of “blissful”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | blisful | blissful, blessed |
| 2 | Middle English | -ful | Appended to nouns to form adjectives denoting... |
| 3 | Old English | -ful | full of; -ful |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | -fullaz | -ful |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | fullaz | full; the whole, the entire |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pl̥h₁nós | full |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |
Words derived from “blissful”