sunnily

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sunny

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 sunnily

From sunny + -ly.

Adverb

sunnily (comparative more sunnily, superlative most sunnily)

1. In a sunny fashion; optimistically
   • 2009 January 16, Michiko Kakutani, “How Oscar Got Grouchy”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     […] they also are blessedly free of the uptight, sunnily upbeat, politically correct tone that has crept into more recent incarnations.