Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full. · To enter (something), making it full. · To occupy fully, to take up all of. · To become full.
From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”)
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- Root classification mention*pleh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionfillenenm
- Inherited-form mentionfyllanang · to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill
- Inherited-form mention*fullijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*fullijanągem-pro · to make full, fill
- Derivation mention*pl̥h₁nósine-pro · full
- Cognate mentionfillsco · to fill
- Cognate mentionfoljefy · to fill
- Cognate mentionfüllennds · to fill
- Cognate mentionvullennl · to fill
- Cognate mentionfüllende · to fill
- Cognate mentionfyldeda · to fill
- Cognate mentionfyllasv · to fill
- Cognate mentionfylleno · to fill
- Cognate mentionfyllais · to fill
- Cognate mentionplenusla · full
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