English
likeful
Likeful comes from Middle English likful.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500likful
- Englishearliest quotation 1973likeful
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500likful
- Englishearliest quotation 1973likeful
Earliest quotation: 1973, original 1582, Gregory Martin: “[…] that they put the said word in al…”
Formed from like + -ful
Proto-Germanic *līką ‘body’
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Proto-Germanic *līkāną ‘to conform’
Proto-West Germanic *līkēn ‘to be pleasing’
Old English līcian ‘to like’
Middle English liken ‘to be appealing or pleasant’
English like
Every English word from Middle English likful
Today it means
adj Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English likful / likeful