Ilkly
/ˈɪlkli/noun
In the same manner or alike; a Scots and dialectal English adverb.
Did you know?Ilkly is built from “ilk,” an old word meaning “same” or “kind,” preserved most famously in the Scottish phrase “of that ilk.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*ilīkaz
“Like, equal, or the same; the reconstructed ancestral form behind later Germanic words.”
Old English
Old English
ilca
“The same or identical.”
Middle English
Middle English
ilk
“The same; also, each or every in some northern dialects.”
15th–16th Century
Scots
ilkly
“In the same way or manner; alike.”
Modern English
English/Scots
ilkly
“A dialectal or Scots adverb meaning similarly or alike.”