Word Origin Summary

-ec is attested in Middle High German. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• -ig

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -ich

  Pennsylvania German · inherited from

• -ig

  German · inherited from

• abbedverdighet

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

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