-like
English dictionary entry
Meanings
suffix
- Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).
- Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly.
Word forms
-like
more -like
most -like
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”).
Translations
Arabic: كَـ
Armenian: -կերպ
Armenian: -նման
Azerbaijani: -vari
Azerbaijani: -varı
Azerbaijani: sayağı
Azerbaijani: -i
Azerbaijani: təhəri
Chinese Mandarin: 般
Chinese Mandarin: 如
Dutch: -achtig
Esperanto: -eca
Finnish: -moinen
Finnish: -llinen
Finnish: -n kaltainen
French: -in
French: -ine
Georgian: -ებრ
Georgian: -ებრი
Georgian: -ვით
German: -artig
German: -ähnlich
German: -haft
Hungarian: -szerű
Hungarian: -os
Hungarian: -as
Hungarian: -es
Hungarian: -ös
Hungarian: -s
Icelandic: -legur
Japanese: 様
Japanese: の様に
Japanese: っぽい
Japanese: みたい
Latin: -oides
Malayalam: പോലത്തെ
Persian: ـدیس
Persian: ـوش
Polish: -aty
Russian: -подо́бный
Spanish: algo
Spanish: cuasi-
Spanish: propio de
Swedish: -lik
Swedish: -aktig
Swedish: -artad
Tagalog: mala-
Turkish: -ca
Turkish: -ça
Turkish: -ce
Turkish: -çe
Turkish: -si
Turkish: -sı
Turkish: -su
Turkish: -sü
Turkish: -imsi
Turkish: -ımsı
Turkish: -umsu
Turkish: -ümsü
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