-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, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
SuffixEdit
-lich
- Alternative form of -ly (“adjectival suffix”)
Etymology 2Edit
SuffixEdit
-lich
- Alternative form of -ly (“adverbial suffix”)