-lewesuffix
Old English -lǽwe, forming a few adjectives: Old English hungorlǽwe, Middle English chekelewe, chokelewe, costlewe, drunk(e)lewe, gastlewe, siklewe, thurstlewe. The general sense is ‘affected by, liable to, or characterized by’ (something undesirable); in some of the instances above there are parallel and synonymous formations in -ly suffix1. The etymology is obscure, no corresponding suffix being known in any other Germanic language; connection with Gothic lêw, occasion, may be suspected; cf. also lew adj.2
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1433 J. Lydgate Legend St. Edmund ii. 223 His wounde bloody, his face ded and pale, His eyen gastlewh reuersid bothe tweyne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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suffix1433- insight-learning
- insighted
- insightful
- insightfully
- insightgiving
- insightlearning
- insights
- insignate
- insigne
- insignia
- insignias
- insignificance
- insignificances
- insignificancies
- insignificancy
- insignificant
- insignificantly
- insignificantness
- insignificate
- inter-flow
- inter-flowed
- inter-flowing
- inter-flows
- inter-generation
- inter-generational