English
toollike
From tool + -like.
Formed from tool + -like
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- ‘to tie to, secure’
Proto-Germanic *tōlą ‘tool’
Old English tōl ‘tool’
Middle English tool ‘a tool’
English tool
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of a tool.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / toollike