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iliche

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Middle English

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Adverb

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iliche

  1. Alternative form of yliche (alike)
    • c. 1225, Ancrene Ƿiſſe (Cotton MS. Cleopatra C. VI)‎[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1230; republished at London: British Library Digitised Manuscripts, 2013 March 29:
      The scorpiun is ones cunnes wurm thet haueth neb, ase me seith, sumdel iliche ase wummon, and is neddre bihinden
      The scorpion is a kind of crawling animal that, as they tell me, has a face a bit alike to a woman’s, and is a snake in the rear.

Sardinian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin ilex. Compare Italian elce.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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iliche f (plural iliches)

  1. holm oak