Where does “Lovely” come from?
Lovely comes from Middle English lovely, derived from Old English luflīc, a compound of lufu (love) and the suffix -līc (like, having the quality of).
Lovely (English): Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace
Definitions
- Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace
Ancestry of “Lovely”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | lovely | lovely: loving, filled with love |
| 2 | Middle English | un- | — |
| 3 | Old English | un- | negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |
Words derived from “Lovely”