## Etymology
From reciprocal + -ly; reciprocal from Latin reciprocus ('moving back and forth, alternating'), perhaps from re- ('back') + pro- ('forward').

## AI Etymology
Reciprocally comes from reciprocal + -ly; reciprocal from Latin reciprocus ('moving back and forth, alternating'), perhaps from re- ('back') + pro- ('forward'). The historical chain includes Latin reciprocus. The quoted older senses, "moving back and forth, alternating", "back", and "forward", supply the semantic anchors for reciprocally. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word reciprocally carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adv, "in a mutual or corresponding manner". Related English forms include reciprocal, reciprocity, and reciprocate. The result is a adv whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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