adj.
'unlike, different'
(Modern English unlike)Formed on lyke (adj.).
PGmc Ancestor
*(ga)līka-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
líkr ‘like, alike’
(ONP glíkr (adj.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far líkur, Icel líkur, Norw lik, Dan lig, Sw lik
OE Cognate
gelīc ‘like, alike’; cp. ungelīc 'unalike, different'
Phonological and morphological markers
[absence of palatalization of */k/] (possibly diagnostic)
Summary category
CCC2c
MED cites a large number of unambiguous /k/ forms; these are most predictable in N and E texts, but they occur widely and are the norm in Chaucer.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 950