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-like

suffix

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyg- Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like From Middle English -like, -lik, from Middle English like, lik (“same, similar, alike”), from Old English ġelīc and Old Norse líkr (“same, similar, alike”). Reinforced by like (preposition). Doublet of -ly. Compare also Dutch -lijk (“-ly, -like”).

  1. derived from líkr — “same, similar, alike”
  2. derived from ġelīc
  3. inherited from -like

Definitions

  1. Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).

    • Even at 13 years old, she still had a childlike voice.
    • I saw the snake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck.
    • 1996, Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under "Dark" Damage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind

  2. Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns

    Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly.

    • The Spanish speak machine-gun-like.
    • Hah! Big, bad Punio. Listen to yourself! Trying to sound all important-like!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -like. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA