The story
- Old English · inherited fromoferfyllan“to cram, overfill”
- Middle English · inherited from*overfillen
- English todayoverfill
From Middle English *overfillen, oferfüllen, from Old English oferfyllan (“to cram, overfill”), equivalent to over- + fill. Cognate with Middle Low German overfullen, German überfüllen, Danish overfylde, Swedish överfylla.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.