An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/voll

by Friedrich Kluge

voll, adj., ‘full, complete, entire,’ from the equiv. MidHG. vol (ll), OHG. fol (ll); a common Teut. adj., corresponding to the equiv. Goth. fulls, AS. and E. full, Du. vol, and OSax. full. Allied to füllen, which see. The other Aryan languages also preserve a corresponding plno- (ln becomes Teut. ll); comp. Sans. pûrṇá, Zend parena, Lith. pìlnas, OSlov. plŭnŭ, OIr. lán (for plôno-), Lat. plênus, ‘full’ (manipulus, ‘handful’). The Lat. adj. is a partic. in no-, from the root plê, ‘to till’ (Lat. complêre, implêre; Gr. πίμπλημι, from the root πλη), which appears in Sans. as pur, prâ, ‘to fill.’ The cognates of viel belong to the similar root pel. —