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maternally

adv

Etymology

From maternal + -ly.

  1. derived from *méh₂tēr✻ — “mother”
  2. derived from māternus — “maternal; related to the mother or her side of the family”
  3. derived from māternālis — “maternal”
  4. derived from maternel — “maternal”
  5. inherited from maternal
  6. suffixed as maternally — “maternal + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a maternal manner

    In a maternal manner; motherly, as a mother.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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