Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryResembling or made of a thin film; gauzy. · Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy. · Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.
From film + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch velmich, vilmich (“filmy, membranous”). Piecewise doublet of filmic.
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- Cognate mentionvelmichdum
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