pinlig

Danish

[ˈpʰiːnli]

adj

Definitions

(archaic) painful
awkward, embarrassing
(proscribed) embarrassed

Etymology

Affix from Danish pine (pain, ache, torment) + Danish lig (alike, like, corpse)borrowed from Middle Low German pīnlik.

Origin

Middle Low German

pīnlik

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

Pein German
peinlich German
*-līkaz Proto-Germanic
líkr Old Norse
daglig Danish
hovedpine Danish
lig Danish
ligbrænding Danish
lighed Danish
pine Danish
pinlighed Danish
ulig Danish
pīnlik Middle Low German
pīna Old Saxon