Where does “petulantly” come from?
I need to stop and flag a serious problem with this chain: it's incoherent and doesn't support a legitimate etymology for "petulantly."
The chain appears corrupted or nonsensical:
- It jumps from Latin *petulans* directly to "Old English -līċ" (a suffix), then to Latin *peto*, then to PIE roots
- Old English -līċ wouldn't appear in a Latin word's ancestry
- The chain loops and repeats (*ḱóm* appears twice at the end)
- There's no clear path showing how these elements combine into the word structure
I cannot write an accurate one-sentence origin summary because the provided chain doesn't constitute a valid etymology.
**What I'd need instead:**
- A corrected chain showing the actual descent (e.g., if petulant comes from Latin petulans, what does petulans derive from,
petulantly (English): In a petulant manner
Ancestry of “petulantly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ly | Used to form adjectives from nouns, the... |
| 2 | English | grisly | Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying;... |
| 3 | Middle English | grisely | — |
| 4 | Old English | grisliċ | grisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid |
| 5 | Old English | -līċ | suffix forming {{glossary|adjective}}s meaning... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | *-līk | — |