-ful

• -full (now uncommon)
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• IPA^(key): /fʊl/, /fəl/, [fl̩]

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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”).

-ful (adjective-forming suffix, comparative more -ful, superlative most -ful)

1. 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

• (full of): -ose

• -less

Inherited from Middle English -ful, from Old English -ful, -full, from Proto-Germanic *fullō, *fullijô (“filling”).

-ful (noun-forming suffix, plural -fuls or -sful)

1. 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 plural is formed by simply suffixing -s (e.g., libraryfuls) or by pluralizing the noun (e.g., librariesful); however, the latter way is sometimes proscribed.^[1]

• (having a considerable amount of): -some

• 'flu, ULF, flu

• -fol, -fole, -foll, -folle, -fule, -full, -fulle, -vol, -vole, -voll, -volle

Inherited from Old English -ful, -full (“full of; -ful”), from Proto-West Germanic *-full, Proto-Germanic *-fullaz (“-ful”), from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”). The use of the ending to denote nouns originates in the reanalysis of ful modifying a noun as being part of the noun itself, e.g. "cuppe ful" as "cuppe-ful".

• IPA^(key): /ful/
• (Southern, Kent) IPA^(key): /vul/

-ful

2. Appended to nouns (or, rarely, adjectives and adverbs) to form adjectives denoting the experience or induction of an attitude, internal state or quality.
3. Appended to nouns referring to containers or vessels, denoting the quantity that the given vessel is capable of holding.

• English: -ful
• Scots: -fu

• “-ful, suf.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 June 2018.
• “-ful, suf.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 June 2018.

• -full

From Proto-Germanic *-fullaz (“-ful”), from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”).

• IPA^(key): /ful/

-ful

1. full of; -ful

• Middle English: -full, -ful
  • Scots: -fu
  • English: -ful

-ful

1. Used to form adjectives from nouns; -ful