The story
- Old English · derived fromsǣliġ
- Middle English · derived fromseely
- Scots · borrowed fromsely, seelie“holy, good”
- English todaySeelie
From Scots sely, seelie (“holy, good”), from Middle English seely, from Old English sǣliġ, gesǣlig. Doublet of silly.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishseely all →
sillySeeley
Old Englishsǣliġ all →
silly
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.