Talk:lawly

RFV discussion: August–September 2022
Adjective: "Pertaining to or adhering to the law; lawful; legal." And adverb: "Lawfully; legally." Clearly these are at least nonstandard, and (if they exist) probably obsolete, but I couldn't find anything. Leasnam, make sure you check the pages before you copy and paste, because I found "That plaintiff was lawly with the law" and it was a column overflow scanno :) Equinox ◑ 23:52, 8 August 2022 (UTC)


 * From the obsolete side of things, OED has nothing after 1250. Uses in EEBO seem to be as a Scottish form of, or Middle Scots term meaning, lowly ("mekenes / lawly reuerence / and pure deuocion"; "Laich on the ground, richt lawly lay"; "And to testifie vnto you quhow lawlie I submit me vnder your commaundementes"). This, that and the other (talk) 05:13, 9 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I checked the first 60 Google Books hits for, and the results were: scannos for "laﬅly", the capitalized surname Lawly, OCR errors for law- | -ly, a scanno of "But it is no law." where someone circled the .", Century (with no cites), the Scots version of "lowly", this cite of brother-in-lawly, and one actual use in a translation of the Mahabharata. - -sche (discuss) 06:43, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll fix it. Yeah, not sure where I found that, but it's quite likely from NED. I'll remove the non-Scots sections since Middle English already exists. Leasnam (talk) 14:46, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'll need to create a page for . The aforementioned is the adverb only. Leasnam (talk) 14:48, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Since one of the attested ME forms was, I moved it there. Leasnam (talk) 14:58, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 01:33, 12 September 2022 (UTC)