Etymology

igloolike

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Today it means: Resembling an igloo Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Eskimo*əŋlu
  2. Proto-Inuit*əɣlu
  3. Inuktitutᐃᒡᓗ (iclo)
  4. Englishigloo
  5. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  6. Proto-Germanic*līką
  7. English todayigloolike

From igloo + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.