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8 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective befitting a mother; warm and nurturing
adverb in a maternal manner; as a mother
originFrom Middle English moderly, from Old English mōdorlīċ (“motherly, maternal”), from Proto-Germanic *mōdērlīkaz (“motherly, maternal”), equivalent to mother + -ly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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