Adjective: ashlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ashlike |
| Superlative | most ashlike |
Sample Sentences
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John Wathen, an environmental advocate, flew over the site Friday and said that Widows Creek was inundated with an ashlike substance and that a "mix line" was visible where it met the clearer water of the river. [2009 January 10, Shaila Dewan, “Waste Spills at Another T.V.A. Power Plant”, in New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like ashlike
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *askǭ
4. Proto-West Germanic *askā
5. Old English æsce
6. Middle English asshe
7. English ash
8. Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
9. Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
10. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
11. Proto-West Germanic *-līk
12. Old English -līċ
13. Middle English -like
14. English -like
15. English ashlike
16. From ash + -like.