-ful
- containing an amount that fills/would fill/could be held/contained by the base
- full of/characterized by the base
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /fʊl/ / /fəl/ / [fl̩]
suffix
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English -ful, from Old English -ful, -full, from Proto-Germanic *fullō, *fullijô (“filling”).
- Used to form nouns from nouns meaning “as much as can be held by what is denoted by the noun”
“bowl + -ful → bowlful”
“hand + -ful → handful”