lik
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From likken.
Noun edit
lik m (plural likken, diminutive likje n)
Verb edit
lik
- inflection of likken:
Etymology 2 edit
Unclear.
Noun edit
lik f (plural likken, diminutive likje n)
- (Netherlands, Bargoens) prison, jail
- Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevangenis, nor
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowing from English to like
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
lik
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lik (plural likak)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | lik | likak |
accusative | likat | likakat |
dative | liknak | likaknak |
instrumental | likkal | likakkal |
causal-final | likért | likakért |
translative | likká | likakká |
terminative | likig | likakig |
essive-formal | likként | likakként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | likban | likakban |
superessive | likon | likakon |
adessive | liknál | likaknál |
illative | likba | likakba |
sublative | likra | likakra |
allative | likhoz | likakhoz |
elative | likból | likakból |
delative | likról | likakról |
ablative | liktól | likaktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
liké | likaké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
likéi | likakéi |
Possessive forms of lik | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | likam | likaim |
2nd person sing. | likad | likaid |
3rd person sing. | lika | likai |
1st person plural | likunk | likaink |
2nd person plural | likatok | likaitok |
3rd person plural | likuk | likaik |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- lik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Jamaican Creole edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
lik
- to hit, to strike
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 2:15:
- So im get som ruop an tek dem mek wan wip. Den im yuuz di wip an ron out di uol a di sela dem outa di yaad: dem an dem kou an dem shiip an dem dov. Im lik uova di piipl dem we a chienj out moni kain dem, an im ton uova aal a dem tiebl dem.
- He got some rope and made a whip. He used the whip to drive all the sellers out of the temple, along with their cattle, sheep, and doves. He struck the moneychangers and turned over their tables.
Further reading edit
Livonian edit
Verb edit
lik
- inflection of likkõ:
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse líkr, alternative spelling of glíkr, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz.
Adjective edit
lik (neuter singular likt, definite singular and plural like, comparative likere, indefinite superlative likest, definite superlative likeste)
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse lík, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image, likeness; similar, like”).
Noun edit
lik n (definite singular liket, indefinite plural lik, definite plural lika or likene)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
lik n (definite singular liket, indefinite plural lik, definite plural lika or likene)
Etymology 4 edit
Verb edit
lik
- imperative of like
References edit
- “lik” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse líkr, alternative spelling of glíkr, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz.
Adjective edit
lik (neuter singular likt, definite singular and plural like, comparative likare, indefinite superlative likast, definite superlative likaste)
- similar, alike
- equal
- good (mainly used in comparative and superlative form)
- 1895, Per Sivle, Vaar-Vôn:
- Og kjenner du inkje ikvell ikvell, at Livet, det er no det likaste lell?
- And can you not feel, tonight, tonight, that life is the best thing after all?
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse lík, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image, likeness; similar, like”).
Noun edit
lik n (definite singular liket, indefinite plural lik, definite plural lika)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
lik n (definite singular liket, indefinite plural lik, definite plural lika)
Etymology 4 edit
Verb edit
lik
- imperative of like
References edit
- “lik” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lík n
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Declension edit
Old Saxon edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
līk n
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | līk | līk |
accusative | līk | līk |
genitive | līkes | līkō |
dative | līke | līkun |
instrumental | — | — |
Old Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse lík, from Proto-Germanic *līką.
Noun edit
līk n
Declension edit
Descendants edit
- Swedish: lik
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *likъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lik m inan
- (obsolete) quantity, amount, number
- Synonyms: ilość, liczba, stan liczbowy, stan liczebny
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- lik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *likъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lȋk m (Cyrillic spelling ли̑к)
- form, shape, figure, appearance
- image, effigy
- character, persona (in a work of art)
- (by extension, colloquial) guy, bloke, dude, character
- Ti si neki čudan lik. ― You're a weird guy.
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “lik” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Swedish līker, from Old Norse líkr, glíkr, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz. Cognate with English like (but see usage notes).
Adjective edit
lik (comparative mer lik, superlative mest lik)
- looking like, resembling (in appearance or other characteristics)
- Du är lik henne. Samma näsa.
- You look like (resemble) her. Same nose.
- Du är lik henne till sättet
- You are like (resemble) her in manner
- Han är lik sin far
- He resembles his father (same ambiguity as in English)
- Den nya processen är lik den gamla
- The new process is similar to (resembles) the old one
- (in the plural) alike, same (the same or similar)
- Min bror och jag är inte lika alls
- My brother and I are very different (not alike at all)
- De är lika. Skurkar båda två!
- They're the same. Crooks the both of them!
- x och y är lika
- x and y are equal
Usage notes edit
Lik is best understood as meaning "similar in appearance" in the singular, with uses similar to English like arising from that. An example that illustrates the difference from English like is "Du är lik Michael Jackson," which would always be understood as "You look like Michael Jackson" without strong clues towards other characteristics, as the intuition is "You are similar in appearance to Michael Jackson." In "Du är lik henne till sättet" (You are like her in manner), the intuition is "Your manner and her manner have a similar appearance / look like one another," meaning they are similar, or like one another.
English like may partially be considered a false friend. "You are like her" would most naturally be translated as "Du är som henne" (You are as her).
Declension edit
Inflection of lik | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | lik | mer lik | mest lik |
Neuter singular | likt | mer likt | mest likt |
Plural | lika | mer lika | mest lika |
Masculine plural3 | like | mer lika | mest lika |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | like | mer like | mest like |
All | lika | mer lika | mest lika |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Antonyms edit
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Swedish līk, from Old Norse lík, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image, likeness; similar, like”).
Noun edit
lik n
Declension edit
Declension of lik | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lik | liket | lik | liken |
Genitive | liks | likets | liks | likens |
Derived terms edit
- likbil (“hearse”) (when a car)
- likbål
- likkista (“coffin, casket”)
- likskändare
- likskändning
- likvagn (“hearse”) (when a carriage)
See also edit
References edit
- lik in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- lik in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- lik in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams edit
Tok Pisin edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
lik
West Flemish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch gelijc, from Old Dutch *gilīk, from Proto-West Germanic *galīk.
Conjunction edit
lik
Yola edit
Verb edit
lik
- Alternative form of lick
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 4:
- Fan Buckeen hay pooked lik own thing mad.
- When Buckeen he jumped like a thing mad.
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 10:
- Aal haar, an wi eyen lik torches o tar?"
- "All hair, and with eyes like torches of tar,"
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 19:
- A pipere vel bak lik own in a smote,
- The piper fell back like one well smitten,
References edit
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 132
Zhuang edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Tai *ʰlekᴰ (“iron”), from Old Chinese 鐵 (OC *l̥ʰiːɡ, “iron”). Cognate with Thai เหล็ก (lèk), Lao ເຫຼັກ (lek), Shan လဵၵ်း (láek), Lü ᦵᦜᧅ (l̇ek), Tai Nüa ᥘᥥᥐᥱ (lěk), Ahom 𑜎𑜢𑜀𑜫 (lik), Nong Zhuang liak. Doublet of diet.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /lik˥/
- Tone numbers: lik7
- Hyphenation: lik
Noun edit
lik (1957–1982 spelling lik)