Why “daily” and not “dayly”? - English Language Usage Stack . . . daily (adj ) Old English dæglic (see day) This form is known from compounds: twadæglic “happening once in two days,” þreodæglic “happening once in three days;” the more usual Old English word was dæghwamlic, also dægehwelc Cognate with German täglich
single word requests - each day → daily; every other day → . . . Is there an adjective that means "every other day"? I found "bidaily" but it seems to mean "twice a day", not "every second day" (not even both as "biweekly" does) I'd need this word to very conc
single word requests - Weekly, Daily, Hourly --- Minutely. . . ? - English . . . "Hourly," "daily," "monthly," "weekly," and "yearly" suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units ("secondly," "minutely"—perhaps because of the danger of confusion with other meanings of those words) and in larger ones ("decadely," "centurily