Etymograph

English

serely

Serely comes from Middle English serly.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500serly1
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012serely1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English serely
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2012, Christina M. Fitzgerald, John T. Sebastian: “Under the Heaven and also above The waters serely…”.

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500serlyWiktionary, English serely
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012serelyWiktionary, English serely. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2012, Christina M. Fitzgerald, John T. Sebastian: “Under the Heaven and also above The waters serely…”

Formed from sere ‘separate, different, distinct’ + -ly

Proto-Indo-European *ser- ‘to bind, tie together’

Proto-Indo-European *séreti

Proto-Italic *serō

Latin serō ‘to entwine, interlace, link together’

Latin serere

English sere

Every English word from Middle English serly

Today it means

adv separately; differently; severally; distinctly.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “serely”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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