The story
- Old Norse · derived fromkaldliga“coldly”
- Middle English · inherited fromcoldliche
- English todaycoldly
From Middle English coldliche, caldeliche, perhaps borrowed from Old Norse kaldliga (“coldly”); equivalent to cold + -ly. Displaced Middle English colde (“coldly”), from Old English cealde (“coldly”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.