English
locklike
From lock + -like.
Formed from lock + -like
Proto-Indo-European *lewg- ‘to bend’
Proto-Germanic *luką
Proto-West Germanic *lok ‘shutter’
Old English loc
Middle English lok
English lock
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of a lock (fastener opened by a key).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / locklike