-esk

See also: Esk and ėsk

Dutch

Etymology

From French -esque (“-ish, -ic, -esque”), from Italian -esco, from Latin -iscus, from Lombardic -isc (“-ish”), from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos.

Cognate with Old High German -isc (German -isch), Old English -isc, Old Norse -iskr, Gothic -𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (-isks).

Pronunciation

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Suffix

-esk

  1. -esque: in the style of manner of
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German

Etymology

Borrowed from French -esque and Italian -esco.[1]

Suffix

-esk

  1. Used to form adjectives from nouns. Example: kafkaesk (“Kafkaesque”), from Kafka (“the writer Franz Kafka”)

Derived terms

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References

  1. ↑ Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “-esk”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, →ISBN
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