Where does “faultlessly” come from?
Faultlessly derives from English faultless, formed from English fault plus Old English -līċ and Old English -lēas, tracing to Proto-Germanic galīkaz and Proto-Indo-European līg-, ultimately from Latin fallo meaning to deceive or fail.
faultlessly (English): In a faultless manner
Definitions
- In a faultless manner
Ancestry of “faultlessly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | faultless | Without fault; free from defect or error |
| 2 | English | -less | (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun |
| 3 | Middle English | -les | Lacking (something); without (something) |
| 4 | Turkish | -le | with, shortened form of ile; by, shortened form... |
| 5 | Turkish | ile | with; and |
| 6 | Ottoman Turkish | ایله | by |
| 7 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اِیلَه | — |
| 8 | Proto-Turkic | bile | with, together, also |