Etymograph

English

eightlike

Eightlike comes from Middle English eighte ‘eight’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*oḱtṓw1‘eight’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*ahtōu1‘eight’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*ahtō1‘eight’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150eahta1‘eight’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500eighte1‘eight’
  6. English1500–presenteight1
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1965eightlike1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English eightlike
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1965, Aichhorn, Otto Fleischmann: “...with the contemporaneously developing notion about the eightlike shape…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*oḱtṓwWiktionary, English eightlike‘eight’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*ahtōuWiktionary, English eightlike‘eight’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*ahtōWiktionary, English eightlike‘eight’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150eahtaWiktionary, English eightlike‘eight’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500eighteWiktionary, English eightlike‘eight’
  6. English1500–presenteightWiktionary, English eightlike
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1965eightlikeWiktionary, English eightlike. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1965, Aichhorn, Otto Fleischmann: “...with the contemporaneously developing notion about the eightlike shape…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw ‘eight’

octave, octavo, 17 more

through Old English eahta ‘eight’

aught, eightfold, 6 more

Today it means

adj Shaped like a figure eight.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “eightlike”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw / eightlike

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