riskily

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.

Proto-Italic *sekaō

Latin seco

Latin resecōdeverb.

Vulgar Latin *resecum

Old Italian riscobor.

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Old Italian risco

Italian rischio

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Italian -are

Italian rischiarebor.

Middle French risquebor.

English risque

English risk

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English risky

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 riskily

From risky + -ly.

Adverb

riskily (comparative more riskily, superlative most riskily)

1. In a risky or rather perilous manner.

   Synonyms: dangerously, hazardously

   • 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 90–91:

     [T]he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]

   • 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC, page 522:

     They played till the sun went down, in pure amusement, careless and timeless. Then, as the little sledge twirled riskily to rest at the bottom of the slope: [...]

Translations

in a risky or rather perilous manner — see also dangerously

References

• “riskily”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.