adv.
WA titly, tittly, tytely
'quickly'
(Modern English )Formed within English on tite (adv.).
PGmc Ancestor
*tīða-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
tíðr (adj.) ‘frequent, usual, customary’
(ONP tíðr (2) (adj.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
OE Cognate
cp. tīd (n.) ‘time’
Phonological and morphological markers
ON consonant cluster assimilation
<p>ON adjectival (adverbial) <em>-t</em></p>
Summary category
A3*c
Similarly to tite (adv.), many, but not all, attestations of this form of the adv. come from alliterative texts, although the first attestation is from Sir Tristrem (in rhyming position) in the early 14c.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
WA 267, 738*, 888 etc.
The D MS of WA has tyte (tite (adv.)) at 1875.