'eyelash-like' originates from English, specifically the suffix '-like' from Old English 'líc,' where '-like' meant 'resembling'.

'like' from Old English '-líc' developed through Middle English '-lich'/'-like' and eventually became the productive English suffix '-like', which was combined with 'eyelash' to form the modern English word 'eyelash-like'.

Initially, it meant 'resembling an eyelash', and this sense remains the same in modern usage.