Etymology

dartlike

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Today it means: Resembling the movement of a thrown dart: swift and abrupt. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English dart
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰerh₃-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰórh₃-eh₂
  3. Proto-Germanic*darō
  4. Proto-Germanic*darōþuz
  5. Frankish*darōþ
  6. Medieval Latindardus
  7. Old Frenchdart
  8. Middle Englishdart
  9. Englishdart
  10. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  11. Proto-Germanic*līką
  12. English todaydartlike

From dart + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.