adv.
'becomingly'
(Modern English seemlily)Formed on semly (adj.).
PGmc Ancestor
*sōmi-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
sœmr ‘becoming, fit’; cp. sœmiliga ‘honourably, becomingly’
(ONP )
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Icel sæmur, Norw sømre, Sw dial sym
OE Cognate
cp. gesōm (adj.) ‘unanimous, peaceable, friendly’
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
C1ac
(C3)
Rare, with only three further attestations in MED (twice in N alliterative poems: The Awntyrs Arth and the alliterative Morte Arth. (1), and once in a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86) (LALME LP 709, Hnt.)).
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 622