English Explanatory Dictionary

wonderly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. wondrous; wondersome
adv
  1. Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.
  2. To a wonderful degree, exceedingly.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

wonderly more wonderly most wonderly Wonderlys

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.

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