Etymology

wrathful

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Today it means: Possessed of great wrath; very angry. Full definition →

Middle English wrattheful ← Proto-Germanic *fullaz ← Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
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  1. Old Englishwrǣþþu
  2. Middle Englishwratthe
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
  5. Proto-Germanic*fullaz
  6. Middle Englishwrattheful
  7. English todaywrathful

Inherited from Middle English wrattheful, wrathful; by surface analysis, wrath + ful.

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