Changes

*''cheerily'' from ''cheery'' (note the orthographic change in the original adjective)

*''cheerily'' from ''cheery'' (note the orthographic change in the original adjective)

The suffix -ly, or the similar German, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian suffixes, derive from the Germanic word ''lich'', meaning "body", "shape". "Quickly" could therefore be interpreted as meaning "with a quick body". By comparison, the Romance suffixes -mente, -ment, or -mense come from the Latin "mens", meaning "mind".

The suffix -ly, or the similar German, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian suffixes, derive from the Germanic word ''lich'', meaning "body", "shape". "Quickly" could therefore be interpreted as meaning "with a quick body". By comparison, the Romance suffixes -mente, -ment, or -mense come from the Latin ''mente,'' which is the ablative [[grammatical case|case]] of ''mens,'' meaning "mind." That is, the adverb came from a construction that literally meant "with an [adjective] mind."

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