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liefly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
liefly
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

willingly; gladly

Archaic

Etymology

From Middle English levely, levelike, lefliȝ, leofliche, from Old English lēoflīċe (“kindly, graciously, gladly, lovingly”), from lēoflīċ, from Proto-Germanic *leubalīka, from Proto-Germanic *leubalīkaz, equivalent to lief + -ly.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: levely, lēoflīċe, *leubalīka, *leubalīkaz

Usage

Inflected Forms

more liefly (comparative) most liefly (superlative)

Questions

What does liefly mean?
willingly; gladly
Where does liefly come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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