Etymology

swoonsome

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Today it means: overwhelmingly sexually attractive Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *samaz ← Proto-Indo-European *somHós ← English swoon
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The story

  1. Englishswoon
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. English todayswoonsome

From swoon + -some.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.