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- Old English · inherited fromtīmlīc
- Middle English · inherited fromtimely
- English todaytimely
From Middle English timely, tymely, timliche, from Old English tīmlīc (adjective) and tīmlīċe (“in good time; timely; soon”, adverb), equivalent to time + -ly. Cognate with Danish timelig, Swedish timlig, Icelandic tímalegur, tímanlegur.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.