Contextualizebeta

chieftainly

adj

Etymology

From chieftain + -ly. Piecewise doublet of captainly.

  1. derived from *kap-✻
  2. derived from *kauput-✻
  3. derived from caput
  4. derived from capitaneus
  5. derived from chevetaine
  6. inherited from cheveteyn
  7. suffixed as chieftainly — “chieftain + ly”

Definitions

  1. Befitting a chieftain.

    • But anyway, if healthy minds in healthy bodies was a New England requirement then, at least chieftainly Hawaiians, though frequently corpulent, were impressively fit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chieftainly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA