dialectally

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Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *-s
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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti
Proto-Hellenic *légō
Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)
Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́λεκτος (dĭắlektos)bor.
Latin dialectoslbor.
Middle French dialectebor.
English dialect
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālislbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English dialectal
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dialectally

    From dialectal + -ly.

    Adverb

    dialectally (comparative more dialectally, superlative most dialectally)

    1. In a dialectal way.
      • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 136:
        [...] (though dialectally e.g. in Northern British English while is used like until in (71), so that ‘Iʼll wait while tomorrow afternoonʼ means ‘Iʼll wait until tomorrow afternoonʼ).

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