different between starly vs stary

English

Etymology

From star +? -ly. Compare sunly, moonly.

Adjective

starly (comparative more starly, superlative most starly)

1. (nonstandard) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a star or stars; astral.
   • 1962, Jozef Marie Antoon Janssen, International Association of Egyptologists, Bibliographie égyptologique annuelle:

     [...] The exact setting of position of the Pyramids with regard to the points of the compass; The ceremony of "Stretching Cord"; Constellation of the Great Bear; History of the starly guardians of the poles; [...]

   • 1984, Taehan Suhakhoe, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society:

     If g separates starly points from closed sets, g is a COC-map giving rise to a Nagata function as can be seen by the argument above.

Adverb

starly (comparative more starly, superlative most starly)

1. (nonstandard) In a starly manner.
   • 2004, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Wole?ski, Handbook of epistemology:

     For the sense-datum theory, we have a sense-datum produced by it as it was; on the adverbial view, we are sensing "starly" in the way we would have if we had received the relevant visual stimuli at the time the star produced them.

   • 2010, Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Adam Bradley, Three Days Before the Shooting:

     [...] and he could see the stars in the well again and there came again the rising feeling of falling well-ward into the watery sky, falling freely, well and sky, uply downly skyly, starly brightly well-ly wishing her mother No finish go [...]

Anagrams

• stylar, tryals

English

Etymology

stare +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??.??/

Adjective

stary (comparative starier, superlative stariest)

1. Alternative spelling of starey
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist

     Buddy Eagleton was ahead of Reppler and he turned to run, his eyes wide and stary.

Anagrams

• T-rays, artsy, satyr, stray, trays, yrast

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *star?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?star?/

Adjective

stary (comparative staršy, superlative nejstaršy)

1. old

   Antonyms: m?ody, nowy

   • 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, ?ISBN, page 20:

Declension

Derived terms

• starjejšej (“parents”)

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *star?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta.r?/

Adjective

stary (comparative starszy, superlative najstarszy, adverb staro)

1. old

Declension

Antonyms

• m?ody
• nowy

Derived terms

• staro??

Noun

stary m pers (feminine stara)

1. (slang, derogatory) father
2. (slang, derogatory) old man
3. (slang, derogatory) husband
4. (slang) boss
5. (slang) friend

Declension

Further reading

• stary in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• stary in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *star?.

Adjective

stary

1. old

Declension