Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Empty, vacant. · Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity. · Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular. · Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel, from Proto-West Germanic *īdl, from Proto-Germanic *īdlaz. Cognate with Dutch ijdel (“vain, meaningless”), ijl (“rareified, skinny”), iel (“thin, slender”); German Low German iedel (“vain, idle”); German eitel (“vain, conceited”); and possibly Old Norse illr ("bad"; > English ill).
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"Empty, vacant.",
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