-enlig
See also: enlig
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From obsolete adjective enlig (“identical; uniform”), from Old Swedish enliker. Compare enligt. Cognate with Danish enlig.
Suffix edit
-enlig
- in accordance with
- plan (“plan”) + -enlig → planenlig (“according to plan”)
- tradition (“tradition”) + -enlig → traditionsenlig (“in accordance with tradition”)
Declension edit
| Inflection of -enlig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | -enlig | — | — |
| Neuter singular | -enligt | — | — |
| Plural | -enliga | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | -enlige | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | -enlige | — | — |
| All | -enliga | — | — |
| 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 | |||
Derived terms edit
References edit
- -enlig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- enlig in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)