-lig
See also: lig
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Suffix edit
-lig
- Forms adjectives from verbs, having the sense of "may be the object of"; -able.
- Forms adjectives from nouns, having the sense of "possessing characteristics of"; -ous, -ly, -like.
- Forms adjectives from nouns, having the sense of "occurring at such intervals"; -ly.
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse -ligr (“-y, -ly, -like”), from Proto-Germanic *-līkaz (“-like, -ly”), from *līką (“body; corpse, dead body”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“similar, like; image, likeness”).
Cognate with English -ly and German -lich
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-lig
- -le or -ly, used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "like or characteristic of what is denoted by the noun"
- -ly, used to form adverbs from nouns, the adverbs having the sense of "degree or characteristic of what is denoted by the noun"
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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-lig
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish -līker, from Old Norse -ligr, -líkr, Proto-Germanic *-līkaz. Cognate with Icelandic -legur, Faroese -ligur, Norwegian Nynorsk -leg, Danish -lig and Norwegian Bokmål -lig.
Suffix edit
-lig