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Etymology
From Middle English faderly, from Old English fæderlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *faderlīk.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fatherlie
- fatherly
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 11-12:unnere fose fatherlie zwae oure daiez be ee-spant,- under whose paternal rule our days are spent;
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114