iliche
Middle English edit
Adverb edit
iliche
- Alternative form of yliche (“alike”)
- c. 1225, Ancrene Ƿiſſe (Cotton MS. Cleopatra C. VI)[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1230; republished at London: British Library Digitised Manuscripts, 2013 March 29:
- The scorpiun is ones cunnes wurm thet haueth neb, ase me seith, sumdel iliche ase wummon, and is neddre bihinden
- The scorpion is a kind of crawling animal that, as they tell me, has a face a bit alike to a woman’s, and is a snake in the rear.
Sardinian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ilex. Compare Italian elce.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
iliche f (plural iliches)