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felly en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɛli/
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Etymology

From Middle English fely, felow, felowe, felwe, felȝe, from Old English felg, from Proto-Germanic *felgō (compare Saterland Frisian feelge, Dutch velg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥ǵʰ- (compare Polish płoza (“sliding iron”), Old Church Slavonic пльзати (plĭzati, “to creep, crawl”)).

Meanings

1. The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
2. Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.
   • all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […] c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 426-430:
   • The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

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Synonyms

felloe · felloe

felly en · ADV · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɛl.li/
• /ˈfɛli/

Etymology

From Middle English felly, felli, fellich, equivalent to fell + -ly.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Fiercely, harshly.
   • Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

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