Where does “yfel” come from?

yfel (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz.

yfel (Old English): bad; bad in a moral sense, evil; something bad or...

Definitions

  1. bad; bad in a moral sense, evil; something bad or...

Ancestry of “yfel”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicubilbad, evil
2Proto-Germanic*ubilaz—

Words derived from “yfel”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic ubil →