Where does “bountifully” come from?
Bountifully is an English adverb derived from bountiful, which combines English bounty from Latin bonitas meaning "goodness," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁-.
bountifully (English): In a bountiful manner
Definitions
- In a bountiful manner
Ancestry of “bountifully”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bountiful | Having a quantity or amount that is generous or... |
| 2 | English | bounty | Generosity; also an act of generosity; Something... |
| 3 | Middle English | bounte | goodness |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | bounté | Alternative form of bunté |
| 5 | Latin | bonitatem | accusative singular of bonitās |
| 6 | Latin | bonitas | The good quality of something; goodness,... |
| 7 | Latin | bonus | good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant;... |
| 8 | Old Latin | duenos | Alternative form of duonus |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | dwenos | good |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |