-elk

Saterland Frisian

suffix
Definitions
  • Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "like or characteristic of what is denoted by the noun"; -ly; -like.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Frisian -lik inherited from Proto-Germanic *-līkaz (having the body form of, -like, shaped).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*-līkaz

Gloss

having the body form of, -like, shaped

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