出典:Wiktionary
From Middle English liknen (“to be comparable; to compare (often disparagingly); to make (someone) equal to another person; to regard (something) as equal to another thing; to regard (something) as likely; to resemble; to take (something) as a substitute; to apply, be adapted or suitable; to tend (to sin)”) [and other forms],[1] from liken (“to be comparable; to compare; to be appropriate; to form”),[2] from lik (“alike, analogous, similar; appropriate, suitable; equal; homogeneous; identical, the same; indicative; likely (to be または do something), probable; possible; simultaneous; more or most like (?)”)[3] + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs).[4] Lik is derived from 古期英語 ġelīċ (“like, similar”), from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar; equal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“like, similar; even, level”). The English word is analysable as like (adjective) + -en (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to make [adjective]’).[5]
liken (三人称単数 現在形 likens, 現在分詞 likening, 過去形および過去分詞形 likened)
infinitive | (to) liken | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | liken | likened | |
2nd-person singular | liken, likenest† | likened, likenedst† | |
3rd-person singular | likens, likeneth† | likened | |
plural | liken | ||
subjunctive | liken | likened | |
imperative | liken | — | |
participles | likening | likened |