-ligr

See also: ligr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *-līkaz (“having the body or form of”), from *līką (“body”).

Suffix

-ligr

suffix used to create adjectives, having the sense of -y, -ly, -like
(weak neuter accusative singular) used to create adverbs from these adjectives

Derived terms

Old Norse terms suffixed with -liga

Descendants

Icelandic: -legur
Faroese: -ligur
Norwegian Nynorsk: -leg; (dialectal) -leg’e, -lig’e, -ligan; (also from leginn) -legjen
Old Swedish: -līker
- Swedish: -lig
Old Danish: -lig
- Danish: -lig
  - Norwegian Bokmål: -lig