þryuandely

adv.

Erk thryuandly

‘abundantly, heartily, excellently’ (Modern English thrivingly)

Etymology

Formed on þryuande.

PGmc Ancestor

*þrīfan-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

þrífa-sk ‘to thrive’
(ONP þrífa (vb., C))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far tríva, trívast, Icel þrífa, þrívast, Norw triva, Dan trives, MSw thriva

OE Cognate

Phonological and morphological markers

Summary category

B1c

Attestation

Largely N (esp. in alliterative poetry) in the ME.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Gaw 1080, 1380; Erk 47

See Clark, ‘On Certain’, pp. 390–1, on suggested differences in sense between the instances of þryuande and þryuandely in Gaw and Cl; and further PS 1080n on the meanings in Gaw (for 1380 they prefer ‘worthily’).

Bibliography

MED thrīvinglī (adv.) , OED thrivingly (adv.) , HTOED , Dance þryuandely