An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/voll

by Friedrich Kluge

voll, adjective, ‘full, complete, entire,’ from the equivalent Middle High German vol (ll), Old High German fol (ll); a common Teutonic adjective, corresponding to the equivalent Gothic fulls, Anglo-Saxon and English full, Dutch vol, and Old Saxon full. Allied to füllen, which see. The other Aryan languages also preserve a corresponding plno- (ln becomes Teutonic ll); compare Sanscrit pûrṇá, Zend parena, Lithuanian pìlnas, Old Slovenian plŭnŭ, Old Irish lán (for plôno-), Latin plênus, ‘full’ (manipulus, ‘handful’). The Latin adjective is a participle in no-, from the root plê, ‘to till’ (Latin complêre, implêre; Greek πίμπλημι, from the root πλη), which appears in Sanscrit as pur, prâ, ‘to fill.’ The cognates of viel belong to the similar root pel. —