bountifully

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English bountiful

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English bountifully

From bountiful + -ly.

Adverb

bountifully (comparative more bountifully, superlative most bountifully)

1. In a bountiful manner.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5:

     And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.