Etymology

speechlike

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Today it means: Resembling natural human speech Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-West Germanic*sprākī
  2. Proto-West Germanic*sprāku
  3. Old Englishsprǣċ
  4. Old Englishspǣċ
  5. Middle Englishspeche
  6. Englishspeech
  7. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  8. Proto-Germanic*līką
  9. English todayspeechlike

From speech + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.