Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryObsolete form of silly, especially in its older senses like "innocent", "pitiable, poor", "trifling, insignificant", but also "foolish".
From Middle English sely, from Old English sǣliġ (“blessed, fortunate”), (also gesǣliġ (“happy, prosperous, blessed, fortunate”)), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg (“happy”). Equivalent to Middle English seel + -y.
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