Etymology

dominantly

D2O1M3I1N1A1N1T1L1Y4

Today it means: In a dominant manner. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English dominant
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle Frenchdominant
  2. Englishdominant
  3. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  4. Proto-Germanic*līką
  5. English todaydominantly

From dominant + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.