Etymology

nutlike

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Today it means: Resembling a nut. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Germanic*hnuts
  2. Proto-West Germanic*hnut
  3. Old Englishhnutu
  4. Middle Englishnote
  5. Englishnut
  6. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  7. Proto-Germanic*līką
  8. English todaynutlike

From nut + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.