Etymology

broadly

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Today it means: Widely and openly. Full definition →

English broad ← Middle English brod ← Old English brād
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*braidaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*braid
  4. Old Englishbrād
  5. Middle Englishbrod
  6. Englishbroad
  7. English todaybroadly

From broad + -ly.

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