Morpheme
Sly
Type
free base
Denotation
clever, skillful, cunning
Etymology
Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ; Old Norse slǿgr
Evidence
slier, sliest, sly, slyboots, slyer, slyest, slyly, slyness, unsly
Notes
<y> need not toggle (but can) with suffixes, especially in monosyllabic bases ending in <y>
