Etymology

fitliest

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English fitly ← Proto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg-
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The story

  1. Middle Englishfit?
  2. Englishfit
  3. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  4. Proto-Germanic*līką
  5. Englishfitly
  6. English todayfitliest

From fitly + -est.

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