Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. -ischGermanborrowed from
2. *-iskProto-West Germanicinherited from
3. -iscOld High Germaninherited from
4. -ischMiddle High Germaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• -is

  Indonesian · borrowed from

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