-ly
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释义与例句
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Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "behaving like, or having a nature typical of what is denoted by the noun" Similar in meaning to -like but most often paired with animate nouns.
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man + -ly → manly
comrade + -ly → comradely
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Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "appearing like, resembling, or having the likeness of what is denoted by the noun".
bloom + -ly → bloomly
muscle + -ly → muscly
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Used to form adjectives from nouns specifying time intervals, the adjectives having the sense of "occurring at such intervals".
month + -ly → monthly
day + -ly → daily
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Used to form adverbs from adjectives and nouns.
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sudden + -ly → suddenly
eerie + -ly → eerily
year + -ly → yearly
gluey + -ly → gluily
docile + -ly → docilely
irretrievable + -ly → irretrievably
sly + -ly → slyly
whole + -ly → wholly
ugly + -ly → uglily
ill + -ly → illy
subtle + -ly → subtly
disheartening + -ly → dishearteningly
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Used to form company or brand names.
book + -ly → Bookly
musical + -ly → Musical.ly
clue + -ly → Cluely
词源
From Middle English -ly, -li, -lik, -lich, -like, from Old English -līċ, from Proto-West Germanic *-līk, from Proto-Germanic *-līkaz (“having the body or form of”), from *līką (“body”) (whence lich). In form, probably influenced by Old Norse -ligr (“-ly”) (Norwegian Bokmål -lig, Faroese -ligur, Icelandic -legur). Cognate with Dutch -lijk, German -lich, Danish -lig and Swedish -lig. Doublet of -like, more at like.
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