Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySomething that a person likes (prefers). · An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), West Frisian lykje (“to seem, appear, look”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic and Faroese líka (“to like”). Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*leyg-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionlikenenm
- Inherited-form mentionlīcianang
- Inherited-form mention*līkēngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*līkānągem-pro
- Derivation mention*leyg-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionliekjestq
- Cognate mentionlykjefy
- Cognate mentionlijkennl
- Cognate mentionliekennds
- Cognate mentiongleichende
- Cognate mentionlikasv
- Cognate mentionlikeno
- Cognate mentionlíkafo
- Inherited-form mentionlikeenm · pleasure, will, like
- Derivation mentionlikenenm · to like
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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