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7 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adverb in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); ; - Shakespeare
originFrom Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- sweety 12
- tweely 12
- stewy 11
- wetly 11
- wyles 11
- wytes 11
- swey 10
- weys 10
- wyes 10
- wyle 10
- wyte 10
- yews 10