Where does “puddingless” come from?

puddingless (English) comes from English Pudding, from Middle English podynge, from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

puddingless (English): Without pudding

Definitions

  1. Without pudding

Ancestry of “puddingless”, step by step

puddingless traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Pudding

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishPuddingAny of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter
2Middle Englishpodyngesausage stuffed animal intestine
3Old Frenchboudinblood sausage, black pudding
4Latinbotellusa small sausage
5Latin-lusAlternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix
6Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
7Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
8Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via English less

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlessTo a smaller extent or degree; comparative form...
2Middle Englishlesfalse; lying; deceptive; falsehood; a lie
3Old Englishlēasfalse, lax; false, void, loose; devoid of, loose...
4Proto-Germanic*laus
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós