ablatively

English

Etymology tree

English ablative

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English ablatively

From ablative (“to carry away”) + -ly.

ablatively (comparative more ablatively, superlative most ablatively)

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “ablatively”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.