Etymology

scornfulness

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Today it means: The quality of being scornful. Full definition →

English scornful ← Middle English scornful ← Proto-Germanic *fullaz
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The story

  1. Middle Englishscorn
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
  4. Proto-Germanic*fullaz
  5. Middle Englishscornful
  6. Englishscornful
  7. English todayscornfulness

From scornful + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.