English

guilt-sick

From guilt + sick.

A compound of guilt + sick

Old English gylt ‘guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault’

Middle English gilt

English guilt

Proto-Indo-European *sewg- ‘to be troubled or grieved’

Proto-Germanic *seukaz

Proto-West Germanic *seuk

Old English sēoc ‘sick’

Middle English sik ‘sick’

English sick

Today it means

adj Sickened by consciousness of guilt.

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

Etymograph / guilt-sick