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And sometimes the corresponding prepositional phrase is used
adverbially: "of course", "of late", "of old".
A great number of adverbs were derived from instrumental Singular
of strong adjectives, and that is how the letter -e (the inflection of this
case) became a widely used adverb-forming suffix.
E.g. deōpe "deeply", fæste "fast", hearde "hard", wīde "widely".
NB. Adjectives ending in -e became adverbs without any change of
form. Thus, clǽne meant both "clean" and "cleanly".
NB. The adjective-forming suffix -līc + the adverb-forming suffix -e
combined into another adverb-forming suffix -līce (in ModE -ly).
E.g. bealdlīce "boldly", freōndlīce "in a friendly way", luflīce "lovingly".
NB. In ModE the words "friendly, lovely, lonely, likely, unlikely"
are but adjectives, not adverbs!!!
Other adverb-forming suffixes were -lunga, -linga, -mælun,
surviving in adverbs like headlong, groveling, piecemeal.
The degrees of comparison of adverbs were formed by means of the
suffixes -r and -st, preceded by the vowel o.
E.g. holdlīce – holdlīcor – holdlīcost "graciously".
Some adverbs formed their comparative and superlative degrees with
the help of different words.
E.g. well – betre – best;
yfele – wyrs – wierst, wyrst;
micelle – mare – mǽst;
lýtle – lǽsse – lǽst;
as in ModE
good – better – the best;
bad – worse – the worst;
much – more – the most;
little – less – the least.

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