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Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈneɪmli/ Audio: en-us-namely.ogg
Rhymes: -eɪmli Etymology: From Middle English namely, nameliche, namelike, equivalent to name + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian nämmelk, West Frisian nammentlik, Dutch namelijk, German Low German nämlich, German nämlich, Danish nemlig, Swedish nämligen, Icelandic nefnilega. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|namely}} Middle English namely, {{af|en|name|-ly|id2=adverbial}} name + -ly, {{cog|stq|nämmelk}} Saterland Frisian nämmelk, {{cog|fy|nammentlik}} West Frisian nammentlik, {{cog|nl|namelijk}} Dutch namelijk, {{cog|nds-de|nämlich}} German Low German nämlich, {{cog|de|nämlich}} German nämlich, {{cog|da|nemlig}} Danish nemlig, {{cog|sv|nämligen}} Swedish nämligen, {{cog|is|nefnilega}} Icelandic nefnilega Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} namely (not comparable)
  1. Specifically; that is to say. Tags: not-comparable Translations (specifically): naamlik (Afrikaans), այն է (ayn ē) (Armenian), и́менно (ímenno) (Bulgarian), 亦即 (yìjí) (Chinese Mandarin), (jí) (Chinese Mandarin), totiž (Czech), jmenovitě (Czech), a to (Czech), nemlig (Danish), namelijk (Dutch), nome (Esperanto), nimittäin (Finnish), nommément (French), c’est-à-dire (French), à savoir (French), სახელდობრ (saxeldobr) (Georgian), კერძოდ (ḳerʒod) (Georgian), und zwar (German), nämlich (German), ονομαστικά (onomastiká) [neuter, plural] (Greek), ήτοι (ítoi) (Greek), δηλαδή (diladí) (Greek), mégpedig (Hungarian), nevezetesen (Hungarian), konkrétan (Hungarian), jelesül (Hungarian), tudniillik (Hungarian), nefnilega (Icelandic), yaitu (Indonesian), a saper (Interlingua), eadhon (Irish), cioè (Italian), ovvero (Italian), ovverosia (Italian), 即ち (sunawachi) (alt: すなわち) (Japanese), つまり (tsumari) (Japanese), utpote (Latin), vidēlicet (Latin), nominē (note: for a name) (Latin), arā (Maori), mianowicie (Polish), to znaczy (Polish), leia-se (Portuguese), nomeadamente (Portuguese), adică (Romanian), а и́менно (a ímenno) (Russian), то́ есть (tó jestʹ) (Russian), eadhan (Scottish Gaelic), на̀име [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), поимѐнце̄ [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), поимѐнице̄ [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), nàime [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), poimèncē [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), poimènicē [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), específicamente (Spanish), a saber (Spanish), nombradamente (Spanish), nämligen (Swedish), а са́ме (a sáme) (Ukrainian), тобто (tobto) (Ukrainian), cioè (Venetan), sevabo (Volapük), sef (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-namely-en-adv-U659xIDs Disambiguation of 'specifically': 98 2
  2. (now rare) Especially, above all. Tags: archaic, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-namely-en-adv-zU0SnH1G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Interlingua translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Venetan translations, Terms with Volapük translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial): 10 90 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Afrikaans translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Interlingua translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Venetan translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Volapük translations: 0 100 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: that is to say, to wit, videlicet, scilicet, viz., sc., specifically, in other words
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          "text": "Some of the students — namely Paul, Alice and Jake — seem to have trouble with geometry.",
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          "text": "There are three ways to do it, namely the right way, the wrong way and the Army way.",
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          "ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
          "text": "“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…].",
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          "roman": "tó jestʹ",
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          "word": "то́ есть"
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          "sense": "specifically",
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          "word": "поимѐнце̄"
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          "word": "a saber"
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          "text": "Some of the students — namely Paul, Alice and Jake — seem to have trouble with geometry.",
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          "text": "There are three ways to do it, namely the right way, the wrong way and the Army way.",
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          "ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.