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单词 otherliker
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otherlikeradv.adj.

Forms: Old English oðerlicer, late Old English oðerlocer, late Old English oðerlucar, Old English–early Middle English oðerlicor, Middle English oðerliker, Middle English oðerluker, Middle English oþerlaker, Middle English oþerloker, 1800s otherlucker.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Comparative of an unattested Old English adverb *ōðerlīce, cognate with or formed similarly to Gothic anþarleiko < the Germanic base of other adj. + the Germanic base of -ly suffix2 (compare -er suffix3). Compare also the adjectives Old Saxon (comparative) oðarlīcora, Old High German anderlih, Old Icelandic annarligr.Although the word is comparative in form, it is apparently never comparative in function. Also written as two words.
English regional (Devon) in later use. Obsolete.
A. adv.
In another manner, otherwise.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adverb] > otherwise
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otherwiseOE
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OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) 87 Se þe oðerlicor gedyrstlæce, underhnige þære regulican þreale.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 97 Ac he kidde oðerluker his mihte.
a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) 149 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 169 Al he walde and oðerluker don and oðerluker þenchen.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 94 (MED) To zuiche lyue me comþ oþer be grace oþer be uirtue and naȝt oþerlaker.
a1400 in K. W. Engeroff Untersuchung ‘Usages of Winchester’ (1914) 66 Ȝif he oþer-loker doþ, be in þe kynges mercy.
B. adj. English regional (Devon).
Of a different kind. rare.
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1839 Mrs. Gwatkin Devonshire Dialogue 3 It be other lucker books us ha' vrom the Pason.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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