Where does “landfill” come from?
I need to work through this chain carefully, but I notice there are several issues with the provided chain that make it problematic:
1. The chain shows "Middle English fullen" which doesn't connect logically to "land"
2. There are duplicate entries (Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- appears twice, and lendʰ- appears twice)
3. The chain doesn't clearly show how these roots lead to "landfill"
4. The meaning is marked as unknown
Given these problems, I cannot write an accurate one-sentence etymology summary. The chain as presented doesn't establish a clear, coherent path from the PIE roots to "landfill" in English, and including "fullen" (which appears to be a different word entirely) would be inaccurate.
Could you verify the etymology chain for "landfill"? A proper chain should show:
- How we get from the
landfill (English): To dispose of by burying it at a landfill site;...
Definitions
- To dispose of by burying it at a landfill site;...
Ancestry of “landfill”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Fill | — |
| 2 | Middle English | fillen | to fill |
| 3 | Old English | fyllan | to fill; Alternative form of fiellan |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *fullijan | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | fullijaną | to fill, to make full |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | fullaz | full; the whole, the entire |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pl̥h₁nós | full |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |
Words derived from “landfill”