The story
- Middle English · inherited fromwetandly
- English todaywittingly
From Middle English wetandly, wettanly, wetyngly, witandly, witingeliche, wittandly, wittingli, wittingly, wityngli, wityngly, witynly, wytindeliche, wytyngly, equivalent to witting + -ly. Cognate with German wissentlich.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.