different between felly vs relly

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English fely, felow, felowe, felwe, fel?e, from Old English fel?e, dative of felg, from Proto-Germanic *felg? (compare Saterland Frisian feelge, Dutch velg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *pl???- (compare Polish p?oza (“sliding iron”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (pl?zati, “to creep, crawl”)).

Alternative forms

• felloe
• fellick, felk (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?li/
• Hyphenation: fel?ly

Noun

felly (plural fellies)

1. The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
   • 1602, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:

     all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English felly, felli, fellich, equivalent to fell +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?lli/, /?f?li/

Adverb

felly (comparative more felly, superlative most felly)

1. (now rare) Fiercely, harshly.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?v????/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /???/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?v??i/

Adverb

felly

1. so, thus

English

Noun

relly (plural rellies)

1. Alternative form of rellie