Where does “fearlessly” come from?
Fearlessly comes from English fearless, formed from Old English fear and the suffix -lēas meaning "without," ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European per-.
fearlessly (English): In a fearless manner; without fear
Definitions
- In a fearless manner; without fear
Ancestry of “fearlessly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fearless | Without fear |
| 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 |