adv.
WA menskfully
'gracefully'
(Modern English )Formed on menskful (adj.).
PGmc Ancestor
*manniska-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
cp. mennska ‘humanity, generosity’
(ONP cp. mennska (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far (ó)menska, Icel mennska, ODan men(i)ske, OSw mænksa
OE Cognate
cp. menniscu (n.) 'humanity, human state'
Phonological and morphological markers
[absence of palatalization of */k/] (may not be applicable)
Summary category
C2c
The adv. is first cited by MED and OED from a1375 WPal. (KC 13) (SWM), and then subsequently from a handful of N and alliterative texts.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Erk 50; WA 737*