funereally

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English funereal

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 funereally

From funereal + -ly.

Adverb

funereally (comparative more funereally, superlative most funereally)

1. In a funereal manner.
   • 1962 January, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 41:

     We crawled funereally up the 1 in 100 to Blisworth and reduced speed to not more than 5 m.p.h. round the curve, [...].