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Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse -ligr (“-y, -ly, -like”), from Proto-Germanic *-līkaz (“-like, -ly”), from *līką (“body; corpse, dead body”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“similar, like; image, likeness”).
Cognate with English -ly and German -lich
Suffix
-lig
- Forms adjectives from verbs, having the sense of "may be the object of"; -able.
- Forms adjectives from nouns, having the sense of "possessing characteristics of"; -ous, -ly, -like.
- Forms adjectives from nouns, having the sense of "occurring at such intervals"; -ly.
- dag + -lig → daglig
- år + -lig → årlig
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse -ligr (“-y, -ly, -like”), from Proto-Germanic *-līkaz (“-like, -ly”), from *līką (“body; corpse, dead body”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“similar, like; image, likeness”).
Cognate with English -ly and German -lich
Pronunciation
Suffix
-lig
- -le or -ly, used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "like or characteristic of what is denoted by the noun"
- -ly, used to form adverbs from nouns, the adverbs having the sense of "degree or characteristic of what is denoted by the noun"
Derived terms
References
- “-lig” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “-lig” in The Ordnett Dictionary
Norwegian Nynorsk
Suffix
-lig
- (pre-2012) alternative form of -leg
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish -līker, from Old Norse -ligr, -líkr, Proto-Germanic *-līkaz. Cognate with Icelandic -legur, Faroese -ligur, Norwegian Nynorsk -leg, Danish -lig and Norwegian Bokmål -lig.
Suffix
-lig
- -ly, -like, -able; forms adjectives
Derived terms