-like

(Inglese)

1. (morpheme) Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).
2. (dialectal, morpheme) Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly.

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: -like

Affine olandese: -lijk

In summary

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”).

sinonimi

-ish

resembling

sort of

typical

similar to

-colored

Y

-looking

-looked

semblative

like

-shaped

Traduzioni

-achtig

ähnlich wie

-artig

-idís

wie

d’ordre

de type

du genre

-al