different between waterily vs waterly

English

Etymology

watery +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??t???li/, /?w??t??li/

Adverb

waterily (comparative more waterily, superlative most waterily)

1. In a watery manner.
   • 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

     A reflection in which things wavered and vanished, waterily.

Anagrams

• waiterly

English

Etymology

From Middle English watirly, from Old English wæterl?? (“aquatic”), equivalent to water +? -ly.

Adjective

waterly (comparative more waterly, superlative most waterly)

1. (rare) Of or relating to water; aquatic.
   • 1981, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Technical papers of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping:

     Firstly, a set of waterly elements which may not be able to assimilate to a simple thickness line. These objects have some certain width, for example, lakes, swamps, ponds, and so on.

   • 2007, Geir Hasle, Knut-Andreas Lie, Ewald Quak, Geometric Modelling, Numerical Simulation, and Optimization:

     Bottom or land boundaries constitute wall boundaries for waterly flow, while for air flow similar wall boundaries are represented by land/ground and sea surface.