## AI Etymology
Goodly comes from Old English gōdlic ('excellent, splendid'), from gōd ('good') + -lic ('-ly'). Morphologically, the account is both compositional and suffixal: -lic marks the visible structure by which the older base becomes the modern form. In present use, it is used as an adjective meaning "considerable in size or amount; pleasing in appearance", so the historical material remains connected with the current sense rather than standing as bare ancestry. The wider English family includes derivatives such as goodliness and related forms such as good, showing how the same historical material continues to organize neighboring vocabulary. The named historical forms include Old English gōdlic and Old English gōd, keeping the history tied to concrete forms rather than a loose resemblance. Its semantic neighborhood is marked by considerable, substantial, sizable, and large on one side and contrasts such as small, paltry, and meager on the other, locating the modern specialization without adding a new origin story.

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