skathely

adv.

'with injury'

(Modern English )

Etymology

Formed on scaþe (n.) + suffix; cp. skatheles (adj.).

PGmc Ancestor

*skaþōn

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

skaði ‘harm, damage’ 
(ONP skaði (sb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

OE Cognate

sceaða (n.) ‘injurious person’ (and rarely ‘injury’)

Phonological and morphological markers

absence of palatalization of */sk/

Summary category

A1*

Attestation

Attested exclusively from ME alliterative poetry: mid 14c William of Palerne in SWM dial and WA. See also scaþe (n.).

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 642

Bibliography

MED scā̆thlī (adv.) , OED scathely (adv.) , HTOED ; see further scaþe (n.).