## Examples
- This chocolate cake tastes absolutely heavenly.
- She prayed to her heavenly Father for guidance.
- The moon and other heavenly bodies are controlled by gravity.

## Derived Forms
- heavenlily
- heavenliness
- heavenly-minded
- unheavenly

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hevenely
- Root: heofonlīċ

## Etymology
From Middle English hevenely, hevenly, from Old English heofonlīċ (“heavenly, celestial, chaste”), equivalent to heaven + -ly. Cognate with Old Saxon himillīk (“heavenly”), Middle Dutch himellec, hemellijc (“heavenly”), Middle High German himmellich (“heavenly”).

## AI Etymology
Heavenly comes from Middle English hevenely, hevenly, from Old English heofonlīċ (“heavenly, celestial, chaste”), equivalent to heaven + -ly. Cognate with Old Saxon himillīk (“heavenly”), Middle Dutch himellec, hemellijc (“heavenly”), Middle High German himmellich (“heavenly”). The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern adjectival form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main senses are “Extremely pleasant, beautiful, or enjoyable” and “Relating to heaven or to God”.

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