oddely

adv.

WA odly

'exceptionally, absolutely; remarkably' (Modern English oddly)

Etymology

Formed within English on odde (adj.).
 

PGmc Ancestor

*uzd-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

cp. odda-, oddi (n.) 'triangle, point (of land); (metaphorically) odd number'
(ONP cp. oddi (sb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

OE Cognate

cp. OE ord 'point'

Phonological and morphological markers

ON consonant cluster assimilation

Summary category

A1*c

Attestation

The adv. is rare in ME, in contrast to the adj. on which it is formed (see odde (adj.)). This is the earliest of a handful of attestations in MED and OED, predominantly from the N/EM and E. The ME sense (OED3 senses 1 and 2) does not survive into MnE.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Cl 698, 923; WA 275

Bibliography

MED oddelī (adv.) , OED3 oddly (adv.) , HTOED , HTOED , Bj. 169, de Vries oddi, Mag. oddi, Orel *uzđaz, Kroonen *uzda