See muchly on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"*méǵh₂s",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/méǵh₂s"
],
[
"*-lós",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-lós#Proto-Indo-European:_agent_nouns"
],
[
"*-ilaz",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-ilaz#Proto-Germanic:_adjectival"
],
[
"*mikilaz",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mikilaz"
],
[
"*mikil",
"Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mikil"
],
[
"miċel",
"micel#Old_English"
],
[
"muchel",
"muchel#Middle_English"
],
[
"muche",
"muche#Middle_English"
],
[
"much",
"much#English"
],
[
"-ly",
"-ly#Middle_English:_adverbial"
],
[
"-ly",
"-ly#English:_adverbial"
],
[
"much",
"much#English"
],
[
"-ly",
"-ly#English:_adverbial"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": ":af",
"3": "much",
"4": "-ly<id:adverbial>",
"text": "+",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s\nProto-Indo-European *-lósder.\nProto-Germanic *-ilaz\nProto-Germanic *mikilaz\nProto-West Germanic *mikil\nOld English miċel\nMiddle English muchel\nMiddle English muche\nEnglish much\nMiddle English -ly\nEnglish -ly\nEnglish muchly\n[Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"agent nouns\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*-lós\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"derived\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*-ilaz\", \"lang\" : \"gem-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*mikilaz\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"gem-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-West Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*mikil\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"gmw-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Old English\", \"term\" : \"miċel\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"ang\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Middle English\", \"term\" : \"muchel\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"enm\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"keyword\" : \"from\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Middle English\", \"term\" : \"muche\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"enm\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"much\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }, { \"id\" : \"adverbial\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"adverbial\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang_name\" : \"Middle English\", \"term\" : \"-ly\", \"lang\" : \"enm\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"-ly\", \"lang\" : \"en\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"muchly\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }\" data-lang=\"en\" data-title=\"muchly\">\nFrom much + -ly.",
"name": "ety"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s\nProto-Indo-European *-lósder.\nProto-Germanic *-ilaz\nProto-Germanic *mikilaz\nProto-West Germanic *mikil\nOld English miċel\nMiddle English muchel\nMiddle English muche\nEnglish much\nMiddle English -ly\nEnglish -ly\nEnglish muchly\nFrom much + -ly.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "muchly (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with etymology texts",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with etymology trees",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages using etymon with no ID",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with etymology trees",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "ta muchly"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
36,
42
]
],
"ref": "1912 September, Roubaix l’Abrie-Richey, “The Webfoot”, in Overland Monthly, volume LX, number 3, San Francisco, Calif., page 241, columns 1–2:",
"text": "Finally he partially unbuttoned his muchly-braided coat and drew forth a package done up neatly in white tissue paper.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
48,
54
]
],
"ref": "1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 253:",
"text": "Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
35,
41
]
],
"ref": "1958, Lee Forney Crawford, William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers, and Family Sketches, Genealogies, Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, →OCLC, page 104:",
"text": "Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
25
]
],
"ref": "2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23:",
"text": "I've been thinking muchly about this in the past few weeks while sitting on the benches watching various fashion weeks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Very much, very."
],
"id": "en-muchly-en-adv-PP36cqb-",
"links": [
[
"Very much",
"very much#English"
],
[
"very",
"very"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) Very much, very."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"word": "muchly"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "ta muchly"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"*méǵh₂s",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/méǵh₂s"
],
[
"*-lós",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-lós#Proto-Indo-European:_agent_nouns"
],
[
"*-ilaz",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-ilaz#Proto-Germanic:_adjectival"
],
[
"*mikilaz",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mikilaz"
],
[
"*mikil",
"Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mikil"
],
[
"miċel",
"micel#Old_English"
],
[
"muchel",
"muchel#Middle_English"
],
[
"muche",
"muche#Middle_English"
],
[
"much",
"much#English"
],
[
"-ly",
"-ly#Middle_English:_adverbial"
],
[
"-ly",
"-ly#English:_adverbial"
],
[
"much",
"much#English"
],
[
"-ly",
"-ly#English:_adverbial"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": ":af",
"3": "much",
"4": "-ly<id:adverbial>",
"text": "+",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s\nProto-Indo-European *-lósder.\nProto-Germanic *-ilaz\nProto-Germanic *mikilaz\nProto-West Germanic *mikil\nOld English miċel\nMiddle English muchel\nMiddle English muche\nEnglish much\nMiddle English -ly\nEnglish -ly\nEnglish muchly\n[Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"agent nouns\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*-lós\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"derived\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*-ilaz\", \"lang\" : \"gem-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*mikilaz\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"gem-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-West Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*mikil\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"gmw-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Old English\", \"term\" : \"miċel\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"ang\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Middle English\", \"term\" : \"muchel\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"enm\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"keyword\" : \"from\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Middle English\", \"term\" : \"muche\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"enm\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"much\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }, { \"id\" : \"adverbial\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"adverbial\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang_name\" : \"Middle English\", \"term\" : \"-ly\", \"lang\" : \"enm\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"-ly\", \"lang\" : \"en\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"muchly\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }\" data-lang=\"en\" data-title=\"muchly\">\nFrom much + -ly.",
"name": "ety"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s\nProto-Indo-European *-lósder.\nProto-Germanic *-ilaz\nProto-Germanic *mikilaz\nProto-West Germanic *mikil\nOld English miċel\nMiddle English muchel\nMiddle English muche\nEnglish much\nMiddle English -ly\nEnglish -ly\nEnglish muchly\nFrom much + -ly.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "muchly (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adverbs",
"English colloquialisms",
"English entries with etymology texts",
"English entries with etymology trees",
"English entries with etymon",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *méǵh₂s",
"English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymology trees",
"Pages with etymon"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
36,
42
]
],
"ref": "1912 September, Roubaix l’Abrie-Richey, “The Webfoot”, in Overland Monthly, volume LX, number 3, San Francisco, Calif., page 241, columns 1–2:",
"text": "Finally he partially unbuttoned his muchly-braided coat and drew forth a package done up neatly in white tissue paper.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
48,
54
]
],
"ref": "1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 253:",
"text": "Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
35,
41
]
],
"ref": "1958, Lee Forney Crawford, William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers, and Family Sketches, Genealogies, Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, →OCLC, page 104:",
"text": "Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
25
]
],
"ref": "2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23:",
"text": "I've been thinking muchly about this in the past few weeks while sitting on the benches watching various fashion weeks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Very much, very."
],
"links": [
[
"Very much",
"very much#English"
],
[
"very",
"very"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) Very much, very."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"word": "muchly"
}
Download raw JSONL data for muchly meaning in All languages combined (5.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.