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weal

Meaningriches, a happy state

Common meaning: wellbeing

Journey through time

  1. Old EnglishwelasourceB&T
  2. Middle Englishwelesource
  3. Englishweal‘wellbeing’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old English wela ‘riches, a happy state’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry WEAL, p. 699 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • wela Old English “riches, a happy state”

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