From Middle English filsten, fulsten, from Old English fylstan ("to aid, support, help, protect"), contraction of Old English fullǣstan ("to help, support"), from ful-, full- + lǣstan, equivalent to full- + last. Cognate with Old Saxon fullēstian ("to help, aid"), Old High German fulleistjan ("to help, aid").
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