Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTypical of, similar to, being like. · Somewhat, rather. · About, approximately. · Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).
From Middle English -isch, -issh, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-isk, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos. Cognate with Dutch -s; German -isch (whence Dutch -isch); Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish -isk or -sk; Lithuanian -iškas; Russian -ский (-skij); and the Ancient Greek diminutive suffix -ίσκος (-ískos). Doublet of -esque and -ski.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mention-ischenm
- Inherited-form mention-isċang · -ish
- Inherited-form mention*-iskgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*-iskazgem-pro · -ish
- Inherited-form mention*-iskosine-pro
- Cognate mention-snl
- Cognate mention-ischde
- Cognate mention-ischnl
- Cognate mention-isksv
- Cognate mention-iškaslt
- Cognate mention-скийru
- Doublet mention-esqueen
- Doublet mention-skien
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