Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wonderly

/wˈʌndɚli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English

Syllables: won-der-ly
IPA: /wˈʌndɚli/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

wondrous; wondersome

Archaic

adv

Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.

Archaic

adv

To a wonderful degree, exceedingly.

Archaic

name

Example Sentences

"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.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: wonderly, wundorlīċ, *wundralīk, *wundralīkaz, wundorlīċe

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more wonderly (comparative) most wonderly (superlative) Wonderlys (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce wonderly?: The recorded pronunciation is /wˈʌndɚli/.
What does wonderly mean?: wondrous; wondersome
Where does wonderly come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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