different between ylike vs slike

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English ?el?ce.

Adverb

ylike (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) similarly; alike
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:

     So both together, ylike felly bent, / Like fiercely met.

Anagrams

• Kiely, Kiley, Kylie, kiley, kylie, likey

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ?elic, ilike, yliche, iliche, elike

Etymology 1

From Old English ?el?c (“like, alike, similar, equal, suitable, likely”). More at alike.

Adjective

ylike

1. alike

Adverb

ylike

1. alike

Descendants

• English: alike, like
• Scots: ylike, ylyke, elike, elyke

Etymology 2

From Old English ?el?ca (“an equal”).

Noun

ylike (plural ylikes)

1. an equal, peer

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English sliken, from Old English *sl?can (“to crawl, slink”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?kan? (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sley?- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Cognate with German Low German slieken (“to slink, crawl”), German schleichen (“to creep, crawl, slink, sneak”), Old English sl?cian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”). Related to sleek, slick, slitch, sleech, sludge.

Verb

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

1. (intransitive) To crawl; creep; slide.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sliken, slikien, from Old English sl?cian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”). See above.

Verb

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

1. (transitive) To make sleek or smooth.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *sl?ken, from Old English sl?can (“to strike”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?kan? (“to hew, hammer, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sley?- (“to beat”). Cognate with Old Frisian sl?c (“a shock, blow”), Middle Low German slîken (“to beat”), Old English sli??, sli? (“beater, hammer, mallet”), Latin lig?, lig?nis (“hoe, mattock”).

Verb

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To rend asunder; cleave.

Anagrams

• Kiles, Kisel, Likes, kiles, kisel, likes, silke

Middle English

Etymology 1

From sliken (“smoothen, deceive”).

Noun

slike

1. Alternative form of slyke

Etymology 2

From Old English sl?cian.

Verb

slike

1. Alternative form of sliken

Norwegian Bokmål

Determiner

slike

1. plural of slik

Norwegian Nynorsk

Determiner

slike pl

1. plural of slik