uneath

adverb /ʌˈniːθ/

1. Not easily; hardly, scarcely.

   archaic

   Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.

2. Reluctantly, unwillingly.

   obsolete

   Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.

Where it comes from

From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”). By surface analysis, un- + eath. See eath, easy for further. First attested in the Old English period.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry uneath (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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