Etymology

sticklike

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Today it means: Resembling a stick in form Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)teyg-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*stignéh₂-
  3. Proto-Germanic*stikkōną
  4. Proto-Germanic*stikkô
  5. Proto-West Germanic*stikkō
  6. Old Englishsticca
  7. Middle Englishstikke
  8. Englishstick
  9. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  10. Proto-Germanic*līką
  11. English todaysticklike

From stick + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.