Where does “homelike” come from?
Homelike derives from English home plus the suffix -like, with home tracing to Middle English home, Old English hām, and Proto-Indo-European ḱóm meaning village or home.
homelike (English): Having the comfortable characteristics of a home
Definitions
- Having the comfortable characteristics of a home
Ancestry of “homelike”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -like | Having some of the characteristics of |
| 2 | Middle English | -like | Alternative form of -liche |
| 3 | Middle English | -liche | Used to form adjectives from nouns, the... |
| 4 | Old English | -līc | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -līkaz | -like, -ly |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | līką | body; corpse, dead body; leech-line, bolt-rope |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leyǵ- | to bind, tie |
Words derived from “homelike”