Etymology

morbidly

M3O1R1B3I1D2L1Y4

Today it means: In a morbid manner, or to a morbid degree. Full definition →

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

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mer-der.?
  2. Latinmorbus
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  4. Latinmorbidus
  5. Englishmorbid
  6. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  7. Proto-Germanic*līką
  8. English todaymorbidly

From morbid + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.