Wonderly
adj, adv, name ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 wondrous; wondersome archaic
"The king sent his hunters over, they should see, what kind of animal was set in the tree, they came back and said: there lay such a wonderly animal therein, as they hade ^([sic]) never seen in their life days, raw work of all kinds were on its skin, but it lay and slept."
- 1 Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner. archaic
- 2 To a wonderful degree, exceedingly. archaic
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"The king sent his hunters over, they should see, what kind of animal was set in the tree, they came back and said: there lay such a wonderly animal therein, as they hade ^([sic]) never seen in their life days, raw work of all kinds were on its skin, but it lay and slept."
Etymology
From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderlich, from Old English wundorlīċ (“wonderful, miraculous”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundralīk, from Proto-Germanic *wundralīkaz, equivalent to wonder + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wunderelk, wunnerelk, West Frisian wûnderlik, Dutch wonderlijk, German Low German wunnerlik, German wunderlich, Swedish underlig, Icelandic undarlegur.
From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderliche, from Old English wundorlīċe, equivalent to wonder + -ly.
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