Morpheme
-ly
Type
suffix
Denotation
adjective suffix denoting “in a manner denoted by”
Etymology
Middle English -ly, -li, -lik, -lich, -like; Old English -līċe
Evidence
beastly, beggarly, bodily, burly, costly, cowardly, daily, dastardly, deadly, disorderly, early, earthly, easterly, elderly, fatherly, friendly, gentlemanly, ghastly, ghostly, godly, gravelly, heavenly, homely, hourly, kindly, kingly, leisurely, lively, lonely, lordly, lovely, lowly, manly, masterly, matronly, miserly, monthly, motherly, neighborly, nightly, otherworldly, portly, priestly, princely, quarterly, saintly, scholarly, seemly, shapely, sickly, slovenly, stately, timely, ugly, uncomely, ungainly, unlikely, unseemly, untimely, weekly, wifely, womanly, worldly, yearly
