-ish

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬); 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬 or ; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; and the 🇨🇬 suffix. .

Suffix

 * 1)  Typical of, similar to, being like.
 * 2) * 1859, (as Holme Lee), Against Wind and Tide, volume 1, p. 273:
 * ; for she had recently developed a magpie[-]ish tendency to appropriate and conceal trifling matters;
 * 1)  Somewhat, rather.
 * 2)  About, approximately.
 * (Sometime around ten.)
 * 1)  Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).
 * 1)  About, approximately.
 * (Sometime around ten.)
 * 1)  Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).
 * 1)  Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).

Usage notes

 * This is a productive termination used as a regular formative of adjectives (which are sometimes also used as nouns).
 * Many of the words may have a more or less depreciative or contemptuous force.
 * This is the regular formative of patrial adjectives, with the suffix in some adjectives being contracted to -sh or (especially when t precedes) to -ch, as in Welsh (formerly also Welch), Scotch, Dutch, and French. Some used colloquially or made up on occasion may have a diminutive or derogatory implication.

Translations

 * Albanian: -ëz
 * Armenian: -ական
 * Dutch: ,
 * Georgian: -ური
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , , , -dad, -ded
 * Italian: ico, ica
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish: -iczny, -yczny
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , -iu
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian: -ավուն
 * Azerbaijani: -sov
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: მო- -ო
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Irish: scoth-
 * Lithuanian: -okas
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: -iu,
 * Russian: -ва́тый
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: -ast
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:, -imtrak
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian: -ոտ
 * Dutch:
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: -ოდე
 * German: um ... herum ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Polish: ;
 * Turkish: -lerde, -larda


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: -ական
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: -isk, -sk, -esisk
 * Dutch: ,
 * Faroese: -skur
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: -ელი
 * German:
 * Gothic: -𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: -skur
 * Manx: -agh,  -ish
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Norse: -iskr
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, -esa, -eses, -esas
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: -ский
 * Sanskrit: -ईय
 * Spanish:, -esa
 * Swedish:


 * Italian: ,

Etymology 2
From, , , from , (a termination of the stem of some forms [present participle, etc.] of certain verbs), from ,  (an inchoative suffix), the formative ,  (, Greek ) being ultimately cognate with English. See, , etc.

Usage notes

 * This is a termination of some English verbs of French origin, which normally end in in French, or formed on the type of such verbs, having no assignable force, but being merely a terminal relic, e.g., , , , , , etc.
 * In some verbs it appears in the form, as in and.

Related terms
🇨🇴

Suffix

 * 1)  (language)

Usage notes

 * Added to names of places or peoples to denote the language spoken in that place or by that people.

Suffix

 * 1) -self (emphatic)

Usage notes

 * Added to prepositional pronouns to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun).
 * Used in third-person singular feminine (eg ).
 * Used in second-person plural (eg ).

Etymology
Inherited from.