![]() ![]() ![]() 1761, Tobias Smollett, translator, Don Quixote, part 2, book 5, chapter 4: ( transitive ) To occupy fully, to take up all of.Cognate with Scots fill ( “ to fill ” ), West Frisian folje ( “ to fill ” ), Low German füllen ( “ to fill ” ), Dutch vullen ( “ to fill ” ), German füllen ( “ to fill ” ), Danish fylde ( “ to fill ” ), Swedish fylla ( “ to fill ” ), Norwegian fylle ( “ to fill ” ), Icelandic fylla ( “ to fill ” ) and Latin plenus ( “ full ” ) Verb įill ( third-person singular simple present fills, present participle filling, simple past and past participle filled) From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan ( “ to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy complete, fulfill ” ), from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną ( “ to make full, fill ” ), from *fullaz ( “ full ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós ( “ full ” ).
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