adlig

• adelig (somewhat less common)

Adel +‎ -ig

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdlɪç/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdlɪk/ (most speakers in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)

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adlig (strong nominative masculine singular adliger, comparative adliger, superlative am adligsten)

1. highborn, noble (of noble ancestry)
2. (relational) nobility

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• Adliger m, Adlige f
• Adligkeit

• “adlig” in Duden online
• “adlig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From ādl +‎ -iġ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːd.lij/

ādliġ

1. sick, ill, diseased

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• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ádlíc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Attested since 1560 according to Svenska Akademiens ordbok. The form adelig is the most common form until the end of the 18th century. From adel (“nobility”) +‎ -ig (“-y”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdˌlɪɡ/

adlig (not comparable)

1. Belonging to the nobility.

   Man såg på hennes dyra kläder att hon var adlig.

   You could tell by her expensive clothing that she was noble.

2. Characteristic of nobility.

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• adel
• adla

• adlig in Svensk ordbok.

• glida