Why do we say “grammatically” instead of “grammarically”?

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My son said the word “grammarically”, and I corrected him that the word is actually “grammatically”. He asked why that’s the case since it’s referencing grammar and not grammat. I could not find the answer via google. Please help.

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It might have something to do the root word gramma coming originally from the Greek word ‘grammatike’ meaning ‘the art of words’. And that the switch to T in the adverb derives from that. 

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