Word Origin Summary

-s 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. -sMiddle Low Germanderived from
2. *-iskazProto-West Germanicinherited from
3. -osOld Saxonderived from
4. -schMiddle Dutchinherited from
5. *-iskProto-West Germanicinherited from
6. *-ōsProto-West Germanicderived from
7. -esOld Dutchinherited from
8. *-asProto-West Germanicinherited from

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