líka
Icelandic
/liːka/
verb-weak
Definitions
- (impersonal) to please, to like
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse líka (also, likewise) derived from Proto-Germanic *līkāną (please).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*līkāną
Gloss
please
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- belike English
- beliked English
- dislike English
- forelike English
- liddat English
- likable English
- likam English
- like English
- like-cultured English
- like-gendered English
- like-minded English
- like-positioned English
- likeability English
- likeable English
- likeful English
- likeless English
- likely English
- liken English
- likeness English
- liker English
- likesome English
- likest English
- liketh English
- likewise English
- likeworthy English
- liking English
- likish English
- mislike English
- plainlike English
- semilike English
- such English
- suchlike English
- unlikable English
- unlike English
- which English
- Like German
- liken German
- lájkol Hungarian
- liken Dutch, Flemish
- лайк Russian
- лайкать Russian
- лайкнуть Russian
- likear Spanish, Castilian
- *leyg- Proto-Indo-European
- like Norwegian Bokmål
- *līkāndz Proto-Germanic
- *līkāną Proto-Germanic
- lika Swedish
- lajk Polish
- līcian Old English
- liken Middle English
- líka Old Norse
- like Danish
- لایک Persian
- leicio Welsh
- ilike Tagalog
- *līkēn gmw-pro
- likon Old Saxon
- laik Tok Pisin
- laikim Tok Pisin
- leki Sranan Tongo
- laik Nigerian Pidgin