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-ful

suffix
/fʊl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful English -ful Inherited from Middle English -ful, -full, from Old English -ful, -full (“full of; -ful”), from Proto-Germanic *-fullaz (“-ful”), from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”); see full. Cognate with Scots -fu, Saterland Frisian -ful (“-ful”), West Frisian -fol (“-ful”), Dutch -vol (“-ful”), German -voll (“-ful”), Swedish -full (“-ful”), Danish -fuld (“-ful”), Icelandic -fullur, -fyllur (“-ful”).

  1. derived from *fullaz✻ — “full”
  2. inherited from *-fullaz✻
  3. inherited from -ful
  4. inherited from -ful

Definitions

  1. Used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or…

    Used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by the noun.

    • sin + -ful → sinful

  2. Used to form nouns from nouns meaning “as much as can be held by what is denoted by the…

    Used to form nouns from nouns meaning “as much as can be held by what is denoted by the noun”

    • bowl + -ful → bowlful
    • hand + -ful → handful

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA