Etymology

fulldo

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Today it means: To accomplish; fulfill; complete. Full definition →

Middle English fuldon ← Old English fuldōn ← Proto-West Germanic *fulladōn
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*fulladōn“to do fully, fulfil, complete, perfect”
  2. Old English · inherited fromfuldōn“to complete, perform; arrange”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromfuldon
  4. English todayfulldo

From Middle English fuldon, from Old English fuldōn (“to complete, perform; arrange”), from Proto-West Germanic *fulladōn (“to do fully, fulfil, complete, perfect”), equivalent to full- + do. Cognate with West Frisian foldwaan, Dutch voldoen, German Low German vulldoon, German volltun (“to fulldo”).

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