English

ill-boding

From ill + boding.

A compound of ill + boding

Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz ‘evil, bad’

Old Norse íllr ‘evil, bad’

Middle English ille ‘evil’

English ill

Today it means

adj Which bodes evil; portending bad things.

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