unfull
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English unfulle (“incomplete”),[1] from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’)[2] + ful (“filled to capacity, full; complete, whole”)[3] (from Old English ful, full (“filled, full; complete, entire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The English word is analysable as un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + full.[4]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ŭn-fo͝ol', IPA(key): /ʌnˈfʊl/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊl
- Hyphenation: un‧full
Adjective edit
unfull (comparative more unfull, superlative most unfull)
- Not full or complete; incomplete, imperfect.
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “[Du Bartas His Second VVeeke, […].Adam. […].] The Handi-crafts. The IIII. Part of the I. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 290:
- [T]h’vn-full Harmony / Of vn-even Hammers, beating diverſly, / VVakens the tunes that his [Tubal-cain’s] ſvveet numbery ſoule / Yer birth (ſom think) learn’d of the vvarbling Pole.
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References edit
- ^ “unfulle, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “un-, pref.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “ful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “unfull, adj.”, in OED Online
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