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-ish | Origin and meaning of suffix -ish by Online Etymology


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The Germanic suffix was borrowed into Italian and Spanish (-esco) and
French (-esque). Colloquially attached to hours to denote approximation,
1916. The -ish in verbs (abolish, establish, finish, punish, etc.) is a mere
terminal relic from the Old French present participle.

-ish | Definition of -ish at Dictionary.com


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-ish definition, a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of
"belonging to" (British; Danish; English; Spanish); "after the manner of,"
"having the characteristics of," "like" (babyish; girlish; mulish); "addicted to,"
"inclined or tending to" (bookish; freakish); "near or about" (fiftyish; sevenish).

etymology - How did the "-ish" suffix come to denote the ...
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1 Answer. The suffix -ish comes from Old English -isc and is a diminutive. So it
means the word is lessened in intensity. Normalish (while not a proper word)
means a bit normal. Yellowish means the thing is a bit yellow. Smallish means
something is small, but not overly so. There is of course the suffix -y, which
can have...

What is the origin of the suffix "ish" to mean "somewhat ...


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The English suffix -ish (like "English", "girlish", "warm-ish") can be traced
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straight back to the Proto-Indo-European suffix -iskos. (self.etymology) And it

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meant the exact same thing in Proto-Indo-European as well: "Characteristic


of [preceding word]"! It's cognate with the Greek suffix -iskos, which we see
all the time. So the next time you see an undecipherable Greek word ending
with -iskos, no need to sweat it, it's cousins with "-ish".

Etymology - SKEPTIC-ish
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Gen*e*sis noun 1.) origin or mode of formation * DISCLAIMER: After taking a
look around the site, I hope by now my approach to understanding these
stories is clear. These articles are not sermons passing along God's
instructions for us.

-ish - Wiktionary
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Oct 23, 2019 · Suffix -ish. Usage notes . This is a termination of some English
verbs of French origin, or formed on the type of such verbs, having no
assignable force, but being merely a terminal relic. In some verbs it appears
in the form -ise, as in advertise and franchise. Related terms

What is the etymology of the '-ia' suffix? - Quora


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The ending -ia (with a short -ă) is known as a devī- type stem, from the
Sanskrit reflex devi- 'goddess' (~ Lat. 'dīa,' dea') and appears in both
adjectives and nouns in the classical languages. A fair number of the nouns
are personal nouns or abs...

etymology - Why did English borrow verbs ending in -ish ...


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1 Answer. There are a number of verbs ending -ir in modern French, where
the corresponding English forms end with -ish. Some of them are établir, finir,
nourrir, polir, punir. These are all conjugated the same way, so I'll just use finir
as an example. In modern French: finir is conjugated je finis, tu finis, il finit,
nous finissons,...

List of suffixes ending in "ish". Word List | The largest ...


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Nov 19, 2009 · List of suffixes ending in "ish". List #: 1325. Keywords/tags:

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-al | Origin and meaning of suffix -al by Online Etymology ...


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-al (3) word-forming element in chemistry to indicate "presence of an
aldehyde group" (from aldehyde).The suffix also is commonly used in forming
the names of drugs, often narcotics (such as barbital), a tendency that
apparently began in German and might have been suggested by chloral (n.).

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