scortlice

Old English

Alternative forms

sċeortlīċe

Etymology

From sċort +‎ -līċe.

Adverb

sċortlīċe

(of time) shortly, before long, soon.
(of speech, narrative, etc.) shortly, briefly, compendiously.

Descendants

Middle English: schortliche, schortly
- English: shortly

References

scortlíce in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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