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語源 1

From 中期英語 brotherly, from 古期英語 brōþorlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *brōþerlīk, from Proto-Germanic *brōþērlīkaz, equivalent to brother +‎ -ly (adjectival suffix). Cognate with Dutch broederlijk (“brotherly”), German brüderlich (“brotherly”), Swedish broderlig (“brotherly”). Piecewise doublet of friarly.

形容詞

brotherly (comparative more brotherly or brotherlier, superlative most brotherly or brotherliest)

1. Of or characteristic of brothers.

   brotherly love

   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 115:

     Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.

   • 1908, Richard de Bary, “Social Conversion”, in The Land of Promise: An Account of the Material and Spiritual Unity of America, London; […]: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 297:

     They are modelling in parvo around them the predestined Greater America of the mightier, holier, brotherlier comradeship which it seems America has been called into being to bring to pass for the world:— […]

派生語

関連する語

• brother
• brotherhood

語源 2

From 中期英語 brotherly, equivalent to brother +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

副詞

brotherly (comparative more brotherly, superlative most brotherly)

1. (Can we verify this sense?) In the manner of a brother, as a brother, as brothers.
   • 1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature (page 355)

     Praising and pleading him, / Lovingly needing him, / Brotherly feeding him, / Preaching and speeding him, / Blessing, succeeding Him, / Thus is the Master near,— / Thus is He here!

   • 1881, William Dean Howells, A Fearful Responsibility: And Other Stories (page 159)

     I might have seen him, and talked with him brotherly, face to face.

   • 1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

     "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"

   • 1910, Elias Smith, Herald of Gospel Liberty, volume 102, page 346:

     The people treat me brotherly here.

   • 2012, Laura Hilton, Promised To Another:

     There was no way she'd be able to act brotherly/sisterly with him.

   • 2016, John Clute, Canary Fever:

     […] he traverses planetary-romance versions of Venus and Mars, whups villains till they die, screws bad-ass tall women and acts brotherly to shorter women with bare breasts (it's all right to mention breasts if they belong to your sister) who die for him (even better, I guess), walks away.

   • 2025, Dr. Charles Onwulata, The Wise Sayings of SZOKWA Book II: A Book of Answers:

     So, to be a brother and to act brotherly is a universe of structured experience blissful in Light (higher vibrations) and brightful in darkness (or lower vibrations).

   • 2025, Usha Rana, ‎Rupender Singh, Combating Human Trafficking:

     They should behave brotherly toward one another because they are rational and moral beings.

参照

• “brotherly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• brothelry

語源

From 古期英語 brōþorlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōþurlīkaz; equivalent to brother +‎ -ly (adjectival suffix). The adverb was derived from the adjective in the 中期英語 period from brother +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

発音

• IPA: /ˈbroːðərliː/

形容詞

brotherly (rare)

1. Of or relating to brothers or siblings.
2. Cheerful, jovial; like friends.

派生した語

• English: brotherly

参照

• “brọ̄̆therlī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 February 2019.

副詞

brotherly

1. In a brotherly way; in a way like a brother.

派生した語

• English: brotherly

参照

• “brọ̄̆therlī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 February 2019.