Etymology

machinelike

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Today it means: Resembling a machine; mechanical in form Full definition →

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

  1. Middle Frenchmachine
  2. Englishmachine
  3. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  4. Proto-Germanic*līką
  5. English todaymachinelike

From machine + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.