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The story

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*swalīkaz“so formed, so like”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*swalīk
3. Old English · inherited fromswelċ
4. Middle English · inherited fromsuch
5. English todaysuch

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.