wonderly

adj, adv — 3 senses

wonderly

adj

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.

1

Archaic wondrous; wondersome

  • 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.1812, 2014, Oliver Loo, The Original Grimm KHM 1812, page 330:

wonderly

adv

Etymology From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderliche, from Old English wundorlīċe, equivalent to wonder + -ly.

1

Archaic Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.

2

Archaic To a wonderful degree, exceedingly.

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