Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Evil; wicked (of people). · Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. · Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. · Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. · Harm or injury. · Evil; moral wrongfulness. · A physical ailment; an illness.
To behave aggressively.
Not well; imperfectly, badly
From Middle English ille (“evil; wicked”), from Old Norse íllr (adjective), ílla (adverb), ílt (noun), from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁elḱ- (whence Latin ulcus (“sore”), Ancient Greek ἕλκος (hélkos, “wound, ulcer”), Sanskrit अर्शस् (árśas, “hemorrhoids”)). Cognates Cognate with Scots and Yola ill, Danish ilde (“bad”), Faroese, Icelandic illur (“bad, ill, wicked”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk ille (“bad”), Swedish illa (“badly; poorly”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionilleenm
- Derivation mentioníllrnon
- Derivation mention*ilhilazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*h₁elḱ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionulcusla
- Cognate mentionἕλκοςgrc
- Cognate mentionअर्शस्sa
- Cognate mentionillyol
- Cognate mentionildeda · bad
- Cognate mentionilluris · bad, ill, wicked
- Cognate mentionillenn · bad
- Cognate mentionillasv · badly; poorly
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