Etymograph

English

hackingly

From hacking + -ly.

Formed from hacking + -ly

Proto-Indo-European *keg-

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Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn ‘to hack, chop’

Old English *haccian ‘to hack’

Middle English hakken ‘to hack’

Middle English hakkynge ‘Dicing’

English hacking

Today it means

adv In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hackingly