-lice
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-lice
- (Early Middle English) alternative form of -ly (“adjectival suffix”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-lice
- (Early Middle English) alternative form of -ly (“adverbial suffix”)
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *-līkê, equivalent to -līċ (adjectival suffix) + -e (adverbial suffix). Compare Old Norse -liga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-līċe
- -ly (adverbial suffix)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
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- Middle English alternative forms
- Early Middle English
- Old English terms suffixed with -lic
- Old English terms suffixed with -e
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English suffixes
- Old English adverb-forming suffixes