Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare. · Chiefly followed by to: to make (oneself, someone, or something) resemble another person or thing. · To represent or symbolize (something). · Followed by to: to be like or resemble; also, to become like.
From Middle English liknen (“to be comparable; to compare (often disparagingly); to make (someone) equal to another person; to regard (something) as equal to another thing; to regard (something) as likely; to resemble; to take (something) as a substitute; to apply, be adapted or suitable; to tend (to sin)”) [and other forms], from liken (“to be comparable; to compare; to be appropriate; to form”), from lik (“alike, analogous, similar; appropriate, suitable; equal; homogeneous; identical, the same; indicative; likely (to be or do something), probable; possible; simultaneous; more or most like (?)”) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs). Lik is derived from Old English ġelīċ (“like, similar”), from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar; equal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“like, similar; even, level”). The English word is analysable as like (adjective) + -en (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to make [adjective]’).
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- Root classification mention*leyg-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionliknenenm · to be comparable; to compare (often disparagingly); to make (someone) equal to another person; to regard (something) as equal to another thing; to regard (something) as likely; to resemble; to take (something) as a substitute; to apply, be adapted or suitable; to tend (to sin)
- Inherited-form mentionġelīċang · like, similar
- Inherited-form mention*galīkazgem-pro · like, similar; equal
- Inherited-form mention*leyg-ine-pro · like, similar; even, level
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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"Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.",
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"To represent or symbolize (something).",
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