Dictionary adverb *pol- fallen gefallen gefälligst

gefälligst

(adverb)

Meanings

1.
"kindly", for f***s sake, !!! :(
(Used to be a way to make commands more polite, but now it actually makes them more intense. Think of it as four exclamation points maybe.)
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Word Family

Root: *pol-

The core idea of this root was:

falling

It doesn’t have any other relatives besides to fall and fallen (and “to fell” and “fällen”) in German and English and it is notably absent from the Latin branch of the Indo-European family. There, the word for falling was *kadere, which is the origin of words like cadence, incident or case.

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