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Where does “schamefully” come from?

schamefully (Middle English) comes from Middle English schameful, from Old English sċeomfull, from Old English -ful, from Proto-Germanic -fullaz, from Proto-Germanic fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European pl̥h₁nós, from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- — to fill.

Ancestry of “schamefully”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishschameful—
2Old Englishsċeomfull—
3Old English-fulfull of; -ful
4Proto-Germanic-fullaz-ful
5Proto-Germanicfullazfull; the whole, the entire
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpl̥h₁nósfull
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₁-to fill
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