IPA(key): /ˈbi.liz/ *<span class="searchmatch">biliz</span>(West <span class="searchmatch">Germanic</span>) kind, gentle, merciful decent, fair, equitable *bilaz *billīkaz <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-West <span class="searchmatch">Germanic</span>: *billīk *biliþō (or *biliþį̄)...
From <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s, from *bʰil- (“decent, good, harmonious, friendly”). Cognate with <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Germanic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">biliz</span> (“decent, good, fair, kind”)...
(see there for further descendants) <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Celtic: Old Irish: bil (“good, mild”) *bʰíl-i-s <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Germanic</span>: *<span class="searchmatch">biliz</span> (see there for further descendants) Pokorny...
suffix), from *bil (“equal, alike”) + *-iþu (“-ness, -th”), from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Germanic</span> *bilaz, *<span class="searchmatch">biliz</span>. *biliþī n likeness, image example *biliþijan *billīk *biliþōn...