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The Lich Lic meant "body" in Old English. It had a macron, or dash, over the i to signify a long vowel. It appears in words like "lich-house" for mortuary and "Lych-gate" for roofed gate of a graveyeard, where a corpse awaits burial. This morphed over time into the suffix -ly, which used to...