adv.
WA odly
'exceptionally, absolutely; remarkably' (Modern English oddly)
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
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