-isch

See also: isch and ìsch

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German -isch. The native Dutch cognate is -s.[1] The pronunciation /is/ is due to an earlier pronunciation standard, by which all German vowels were to be tense. (The contemporary German standard pronunciation is /ɪʃ/). More at -ish.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /is/
  • (Some southern dialects) IPA(key): /ɪs/

Suffix

-isch

  1. -ic
    fantastisch — fantastic
  2. -ian
    utopisch — utopian

Inflection

Inflection of -isch
uninflected -isch
inflected -ische
comparative -ischer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial -isch -ischer het -ischt
het -ischte
indefinite m./f. sing. -ische -ischere -ischte
n. sing. -isch -ischer -ischte
plural -ische -ischere -ischte
definite -ische -ischere -ischte
partitive -isch -ischers —

Derived terms

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References

  1. ↑ A. van Loey, "Schönfeld's Historische Grammatica van het Nederlands", Zutphen, 8. druk, 1970, →ISBN; § 171

German

Etymology

From Middle High German -isch, from Old High German -isc, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos. Cognates: see Proto-Germanic *-iskaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪʃ/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /əʃ/ (variant in common speech)

Suffix

-isch

  1. an adjectival suffix, often matching -ic and -ical
  2. of a nationality, or the language associated with a nationality; often matches -ish or -ian
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:German_words_suffixed_with_-isch'>German words suffixed with -isch</a>

See also

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