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Where does “agheful” come from?

agheful (Middle English) comes 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.

agheful (Middle English): awe-inspiring, wondrous; awful, horrible

Definitions

  1. awe-inspiring, wondrous; awful, horrible

Ancestry of “agheful”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle English-fulAppended to nouns to form adjectives denoting...
2Old English-fulfull of; -ful
3Proto-Germanic-fullaz-ful
4Proto-Germanicfullazfull; the whole, the entire
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpl̥h₁nósfull
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₁-to fill

Words derived from “agheful”

  • awful
  • awfully
  • awfulize
  • goshawful
  • overawful
  • goshawfully
  • shitawful
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