-endlic
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Combined form, created from -ende (present participle ending) + -līċ (“-ly, like”) and from -end (agent suffix, ultimately from the present participle) + -līċ (“-ly, like”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-endlīċ
- forming adjectives from verbs with the sense of "able to, capable of"
- ācumendlīc ― possible (literally, “able to arrive or come about”)
- būgendlīc ― capable of bending, bendable, flexible