ENGLISH ROOT WORD: guilt "guilt." from Old English gylt

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【guilt】 is a [English Root word(stem)] from the Old English word(s) "gylt." It carries the basic meaning of "guilt."

[English words in the top 5000 most frequently used containing the root "guilt"]

guilt **[3114] responsibility for a crime or for doing something bad or wrong opposite
guilty ****[1765] If you feel guilty, you feel unhappy because you think that you have done something wrong or have failed to do something which you should have done.

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[WORD ROOT]root guilt
[VARIATIONS OF ROOT] guilt
[ETYMOLOGY]root (Old English) gylt
[MEANING]root guilt

【DETAILs OF ORIGIN(ETYMOLOGY】

• 【Old English】 gylt [though some suspect a connection to Old English gieldan] crime, sin, moral defect, failure of duty

Please see the Word information in detail as follows;

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guilt ★★[3114] noun from guilt
【DEFINITION】 ① responsibility for a crime or for doing something bad or wrong opposite
② a bad feeling caused by knowing or thinking that you have done something bad or wrong
【pl.】 UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
【ANTONYM】 innocence
【ROOTs】 guilt; guilt
【Etymology】 《Old English gylt》 [though some suspect a connection to Old English gieldan] crime, sin, moral defect, failure of duty
【First Known Meaning】 crime, sin, moral defect, failure of duty
【DERIVATIVEs】 guiltily, guiltiness, guilty, guilt

guilty ★★★★[1765] adjective from guilt
【DEFINITION】 If you feel guilty, you feel unhappy because you think that you have done something wrong or have failed to do something which you should have done.
【VARIATIONs】 비교; guilty < guiltier < guiltiest
【ANTONYM】 innocent
【COMPOSITION】 guilt + y
【ROOTs】 ⑴ guilt; guilt ⑵ y; suffix
【Etymology】 《Old English gyltig》 [from gylt] offending, delinquent, criminal
【First Known Meaning】 offending, delinquent, criminal
【DERIVATIVEs】 guiltily, guiltiness, guilty, guilt

Other words containing "guilt"; bloodguilt, bloodguilty, guiltily, guiltiness, guiltless, guiltlessly, guiltlessness

(※ Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the theorized common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages.)

【OTHER ROOTs; 】

guard
grow
ground
gross
grad-, gred-, gress-
grav-
grat-, grace
graph-
grand-
gram

 

 

 

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