See seemly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"3": "sœmiligr",
"t": "seemly"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse sœmiligr (“seemly”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "seem",
"3": "ly",
"id2": "adjectival"
},
"expansion": "seem + -ly",
"name": "suf"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "sæmilegur",
"t": "seemly, passable"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic sæmilegur (“seemly, passable”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "sømmelig",
"t": "seemly"
},
"expansion": "Danish sømmelig (“seemly”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English semly, semely, semelich, from Old Norse sœmiligr (“seemly”); equivalent to seem + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic sæmilegur (“seemly, passable”), Danish sømmelig (“seemly”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more seemly",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most seemly",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "seemly (comparative more seemly, superlative most seemly)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
"text": "The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Appropriately, fittingly."
],
"links": [
[
"Appropriately",
"appropriately"
],
[
"fittingly",
"fittingly"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsiːmli/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-seemly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-seemly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-seemly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-seemly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-seemly.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "seemly"
}
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