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-allysuffix Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. The first syllable of this suffix is often dropped, see e.g. romantically adv.Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: -al suffix1, -ly suffix2. Etymology: < -al suffix1 + -ly suffix2.Found earliest in the 14th and 15th centuries in formations on nouns, such as proportionally adv., processionally adv., on the model of formations in -ly suffix2 on adjectives in -al suffix1. A very common pattern is of formations on adjectives in -ic suffix, on the model of formations in -ly suffix2 on adjectives ending in -ical . It can frequently be unclear whether a word shows a formation in -ly suffix2 on a stem ending in -ical , or a formation in -ally suffix on a stem ending in -ic ; compare e.g. rustically adv., parenthetically adv., optimistically adv.; in many cases it is likely that a word partly shows each of these origins. Formations that seem unambiguously to show -ally suffix on either an English word in -ic suffix or a Latin or Greek adjective in -icus or -ικός are found from the 16th cent. onwards (e.g. metaphrastically adv., periphrastically adv., romantically adv.), although down to the end of the 17th cent. it is very common for adverb formations directly on words in -ic suffix to show -ly suffix2 (e.g. franticly adv.). There is often variation in early use, as between e.g. romantically adv. and romanticly adv. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2020). <  suffix |