spryly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spry

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 spryly

From spry + -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

spryly (comparative more spryly, superlative most spryly)

1. In a spry manner.
   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 579:

     But now an express had rolled up and the old man was disappearing quite spryly inside one of its doors.