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Where does “unblissful” come from?

unblissful (English) comes from English blissful, from Middle English blisful, from Middle English -ful, from Old English -ful, from Proto-Germanic -fullaz, from Proto-Germanic fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European pl̥h₁nós, from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- — to fill.

unblissful (English): Not blissful

Definitions

  1. Not blissful

Ancestry of “unblissful”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishblissfulExtremely happy; full of joy; experiencing,...
2Middle Englishblisfulblissful, blessed
3Middle English-fulAppended to nouns to form adjectives denoting...
4Old English-fulfull of; -ful
5Proto-Germanic-fullaz-ful
6Proto-Germanicfullazfull; the whole, the entire
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpl̥h₁nósfull
8Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₁-to fill

Words derived from “unblissful”

  • unblissfully
  • unblissfulness
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