wonderly

See also: Wonderly

English

Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

wonderly (comparative more wonderly, superlative most wonderly)

1. (archaic) wondrous; wondersome
   • 1812, 2014, Oliver Loo, The Original Grimm KHM 1812, page 330:

     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 2

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

Adverb

wonderly (comparative more wonderly, superlative most wonderly)

1. (archaic) Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.
2. (archaic) To a wonderful degree, exceedingly.

Anagrams

• Dolywern

Middle English

Adverb

wonderly

1. wonderly, to a wonderful degree, exceedingly.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum I”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book I, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 35:

     [A]nd in lyke wyse as she saide so they departed / that neyther the kynge nor none of his counceill were ware of their departyng / Also soone as kyng Vther knewe of theire departyng soo sodenly / he was wonderly wrothe / Thenne he called to hym his pryuy counceille / and told them of the sodeyne departyng of the duke and his wyf

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