Etymograph

English

ghostliness

From ghostly + -ness.

A compound of ghostly + -ness

Proto-West Germanic *gaistalīk ‘spiritual’

Old English gāstlīċ ‘spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly,…’

Middle English gostly ‘relating to or belonging to the spirit’

English ghostly

Today it means

noun The quality of being ghostly.

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

Etymograph / ghostliness