English
guilesome
Guilesome comes from Middle English gilesum.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gilesum
- Englishearliest quotation 1966guilesome
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gilesum
- Englishearliest quotation 1966guilesome
Earliest quotation: 1966, William Morris, Collected Works: “Of friends was fulfilled; naught there that was guilesome…”
Formed from guile + -some
Proto-Indo-European *wey- ‘to turn, bend’
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Frankish *wīl ‘ruse’
Old French guile ‘deception’
Anglo-Norman gile
Middle English gile
English guile
Every English word from Middle English gilesum
Today it means
adj Characterised or marked by guile or deceit; deceitful.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English gilesum / guilesome