English
homeliness
Homeliness comes from Middle English homlynesse.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500homlynesse
- Englishearliest quotation 1831homeliness
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500homlynesse
- Englishearliest quotation 1831homeliness
Earliest quotation: 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality. […]: “How many familiar faces, rejoicing in our joy, sorrowing…”
Formed from homely + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos ‘village, home’
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Proto-West Germanic *haim ‘home’
Proto-West Germanic *haimalīk ‘of or characteristic of home’
Old English *hāmlīċ ‘of the home, domestic’
Middle English homly ‘domestic, familiar, plain, unattractive’
English homely
Every English word from Middle English homlynesse
Today it means
noun The property of being homely.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English homlynesse / homeliness