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Where does “idel” come from?
idel (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch īdil, from Proto-Germanic *īdl.
Ancestry of “idel”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Dutch
īdil
empty
2
Proto-Germanic
*īdl
—
Words derived from “idel”
ijdel
ijl
iel
ijdelheid
ijlhoofdig
ielig
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