Etymology

unwarely

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Today it means: unawares; unforeseen Full definition →

Middle English unwarly ← Old English unwærlīce
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromunwærlīce
  2. Middle English · inherited fromunwarly
  3. English todayunwarely

from Middle English unwarly, from Old English unwærlīce; equivalent to unware + -ly.

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