Etymograph

English

loathly

Loathly comes from Old English lāþlīċ ‘loathly, hateful, horrible, repulsive,…’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *laiþalīkaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*laiþalīkazreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150lāþ‘loathsome, hateful, unpleasant, evil’
  3. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150lāþlīċ‘loathly, hateful, horrible, repulsive, unpleasant’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500lothli
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1596loathly

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*laiþalīkazreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150lāþ‘loathsome, hateful, unpleasant, evil’
  3. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150lāþlīċ‘loathly, hateful, horrible, repulsive, unpleasant’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500lothli
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1596loathly

Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: “Her loathly viſage viewing with diſdaine, / Eftſoones I…”

Formed from loath + -ly

Middle English lōth

English loath

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *laiþalīkaz

Another origin of loathly

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*laiþalīkazreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150lāþ‘loathsome, hateful, unpleasant, evil’
  3. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150lāþlīċ‘hateful, loathsome, disgusting, horrible, detestable, abominable’
  4. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150lāþlīċe‘hatefully’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*lothlireconstructed
  6. Englishtodayloathly

Today it means

adj Loathsome; hideous.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *laiþalīkaz / loathly

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