Etymology

foxlike

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Today it means: Resembling or characteristic of a fox. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*púḱsos
  2. Proto-Germanic*fuhsaz
  3. Old Englishfox
  4. Middle Englishfox
  5. Englishfox
  6. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  7. Proto-Germanic*līką
  8. English todayfoxlike

From fox + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.