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Where does “drowsily” come from?

Drowsily comes from English drowse with the suffix -y, from Middle French -ie, from Latin -ia and -ivus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos.

drowsily (English): In a drowsy manner

Definitions

  1. In a drowsy manner

Ancestry of “drowsily”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-lyUsed to form adjectives from nouns, the...
2EnglishgrislyHorrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying;...
3Middle Englishgrisely—
4Old Englishgrisliċgrisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid
5Old English-līċsuffix forming {{glossary|adjective}}s meaning...
6Proto-Germanic*-līk—
Every word from Proto-Germanic *-līk →