Etymology

beautifully

beau·ti·ful·ly
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Today it means: In a beautiful manner. Full definition →

English beautiful ← Middle English bewteful ← Proto-Germanic *fullaz
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The story

  1. Vulgar Latin*bellitātem
  2. Anglo-Normanbiauté
  3. Middle Englishbeaute
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
  6. Proto-Germanic*fullaz
  7. Middle Englishbewteful
  8. Englishbeautiful
  9. English todaybeautifully

From beautiful + -ly. First attested in the 17th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.