Where does “worldly” come from?

Worldly comes from Old English woruldlīċ, from Proto-Germanic weraldilīkaz, a compound of "world" and a suffix meaning "like" or "of the nature of."

worldly (English): Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical...

Definitions

  1. Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical...

Ancestry of “worldly”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishworldlyOf the material world
2Old Englishworuldlīċworldly, earthly, natural, physical, temporal, mundane
3Proto-Germanicweraldilīkaz—

Words derived from “worldly”

Every word from Proto-Germanic weraldilīkaz →Every word from Old English woruldlīċ →Every word from Middle English worldly →