Etymology

weblike

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Today it means: Resembling a web. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  3. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  4. Old Englishwebb
  5. Middle Englishweb
  6. Englishweb
  7. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  8. Proto-Germanic*līką
  9. English todayweblike

From web + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.