prepositionally

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English prepositional

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 prepositionally

From prepositional + -ly.

Adverb

prepositionally (not comparable)

1. In a prepositional manner.
   • 2007, Kim Schulte, Prepositional Infinitives in Romance: A Usage-based Approach to Syntactic Change‎^[1]:

     The meaning of the gerundive can further be modified prepositionally.

   • 1879, William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar‎^[2]:

     Words are thus used prepositionally along with all the noun-cases excepting the dative.

2. As a preposition.

Translations

in a prepositional manner

• Finnish: prepositionaalisesti, preposition omaisesti
• Polish: przyimkowo

as a preposition

• Finnish: prepositiona (fi)
• Polish: przyimkowo