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monthly

/ˈmʌnθli/MUHNTH-lee
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked
/ˈmʌnθli/MUHNTH-lee

Meaningevery month

Common meaning: happening or produced once a month

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Journey through time

  1. Old EnglishmonaþsourceB&T
  2. Middle Englishmonethsource
  3. Englishmonth‘a period of about four weeks’
  4. Englishformed in English from monthmonthly‘happening or produced once a month’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from month + -ly.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), MONTH, p.376 · scan

Source words

  • monaþ Old English · source word “a moon's period”

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