Etymology

painterliness

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Today it means: The state or condition of being painterly. Full definition →

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

  1. Old Frenchpeintor
  2. Middle Englishpeyntour
  3. Englishpainter
  4. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  5. Proto-Germanic*līką
  6. Englishpainterly
  7. English todaypainterliness

From painterly + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.