Where does “īdel” come from?

īdel (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *īdl — void, empty, ineffective.

īdel (Old English): empty, void; bereft

Definitions

  1. empty, void; bereft

Ancestry of “īdel”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*īdlvoid, empty, ineffective

Words derived from “īdel

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *īdl