ETYMOLOGY
from weal (well-being, Old English wela [wealth], in late Old English also welfare, well-being), + –some
EXAMPLE
“…I preisede more the deade than the liuende; and I demede hym welsumere than either, that ȝit is not born …”
From: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books
(Wycliffite, early version), a1382
Edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden. 1850
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