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Etymology
Etymology tree English break Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English breakable Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English breakably From breakable + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a breakable manner.
Everything that Constantine and Aiah run up against is dangerously solid, breakably real.
1997 February 23, Gerald Jonas, “Science Fiction”, in The New York Times: