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

  1. Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing,...

Ancestry of “blissful”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishblisfulblissful, blessed
2Middle English-fulAppended to nouns to form adjectives denoting...
3Old English-fulfull of; -ful
4Proto-Germanic-fullaz-ful
5Proto-Germanicfullazfull; the whole, the entire
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpl̥h₁nósfull
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₁-to fill

Words derived from “blissful”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European pl̥h₁nós →Every word from Proto-Germanic fullaz →
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