Where does “wastful” come from?

wastful (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.

wastful (Middle English): wasteful, profligate

Definitions

  1. wasteful, profligate

Ancestry of “wastful”, 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 “wastful”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European pl̥h₁nós →Every word from Proto-Germanic fullaz →