-lich
GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- -licht (nowadays uncommon)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German -lich, from Old High German -līh, from Proto-Germanic *-līkaz. Cognate with English -ly and Dutch -lijk.[1]
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-lich
- an adjectival suffix
- an adverbial suffix
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “-lich”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, ISBN 3-11-006800-1
Middle EnglishEdit
SuffixEdit
-lich
- Alternative form of -liche
ReferencesEdit
- “-lī, suf.(1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 April 2018.
- “-lī, suf.(2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 April 2018.