Etymology

bejeweled

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Today it means: Covered in jewels, especially as decoration. Full definition →

English bejewel ← Middle English juel ← Anglo-Norman jue
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁pi
  5. Proto-Germanic*bi
  6. Proto-Germanic*bi-
  7. Proto-West Germanic*bi-
  8. Old Englishbe-
  9. Middle Englishbi-
  10. Englishbe-
  11. Anglo-Normanjue
  12. Middle Englishjuel
  13. Englishjewel
  14. Englishbejewel
  15. English todaybejeweled

From bejewel + -ed.

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