waywardly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English wayward

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 waywardly

From wayward + -ly.

Adverb

waywardly (comparative more waywardly, superlative most waywardly)

1. In a wayward manner.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

     He waywardly wished for something, and he set about obtaining it like a child in a nursery.