English

full-grade

Full-grade comes from English gradation ‘apophony’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of full + grade

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- ‘to fill’

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Proto-Germanic *fullaz ‘full’

Proto-West Germanic *full ‘full’

Old English full ‘full’

Middle English ful ‘full’

English full

Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-

Proto-Italic *graðus

Latin gradus ‘a step’

Middle French grade ‘a grade’

English grade

Every English word from English gradation

noun An ablaut form that is either e-grade or o-grade.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.