Etymology

senseful

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Today it means: Full of sense; meaningful; significant. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *fullaz ← Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós ← English sense
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sent-
  2. Proto-Italic*sentiō
  3. Latinsentiō
  4. Latinsēnsu
  5. Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
  6. Frankish*sinn
  7. Vulgar Latin*sennus
  8. Old Frenchsens
  9. Middle Englishsense
  10. Englishsense
  11. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
  13. Proto-Germanic*fullaz
  14. English todaysenseful

From sense + -ful.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.