-ish
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[edit] Etymology
From Old English -isc. Cognate with German and Dutch -isch, Latin -icus, -isce and -ice, Ancient Greek -ικος (-ikos), Slavic -ic, -ich, etc.
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-ish
- (appended to many kinds of words) Typical or similar to.
- Her face had a girlish charm.
- 1859, Harriet Parr (as Holme Lee), Against Wind and Tide, volume 1, p. 273:
- […] ; for she had recently developed a magpie[-]ish tendency to appropriate and conceal trifling matters; […]
- (appended to adjectives) Somewhat.
- Her face had a greenish tinge.
- (appended to numbers, especially times and ages) About, approximately.
- We arrived at tennish or We arrived tennish. (A few minutes before, to a few minutes after.)
- I couldn't tell his precise age, but he was fiftyish.
- (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions) Of a nationality, or the language associated with a nationality.
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appended to numbers
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appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions
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