Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context. · Any. · Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather. · Used with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations.
From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.
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- Inherited-form mentionsuchenm
- Inherited-form mentionswelċang
- Inherited-form mention*swalīkgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*swalīkazgem-pro · so formed, so like
- Word-formation componentsoen
- Word-formation componentlikeen
- Cognate mentionswilksco
- Cognate mentionsukstq · such
- Cognate mentionsukfy
- Cognate mentionsülknds
- Cognate mentionzulknl · such
- Cognate mentionsolchde · such
- Cognate mentionsligda · like that, such
- Cognate mentionsliksv · such
- Cognate mentionslíkuris · such
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