The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*angilalīk
- Old English · inherited fromænġellīċ
- Middle English · inherited fromaungelly
- English todayangelly
From Middle English aungelly, angely, angelich, from Old English ænġellīċ, enġellīċ, enġlelīċ (“resembling an angel; angelic”), from Proto-West Germanic *angilalīk, equivalent to angel + -ly. Compare angely.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.