Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-līkazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_līkaz
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic LanguagesRobert D.FulkJohn Benjamins Publishing Company2018Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969*leyg-similar, like even, level (e.g. of a surface)
adja-stemModern English “-like, -ly”; forms adjectives from nouns and adjectives with the sense of 'similar to, characteristic of'From pre-Germanic *leyg-o-s, from Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- . The suffixal use developed within Germanic from its use as a second constituent in compounds. In the traditional analysis, *-līkaz was mediated through Proto-Germanic *līką, so that compounds originally meant ‘having the body/form of X’ or ‘of X-kind’ Krahe & Meid 1969: 219, 226–27. Fulk 2018: 203 n. 7, 238, however, argues that it is simpler to regard *-līkaz as adjectival from the start.