-ish

后缀
中文释义
美 /ɪʃ/

英文释义

后缀
  1. Typical of, similar to, being like. morpheme
    — Her face had a girlish charm.
  2. An ending found on some verbs; see usage notes. idiomatic,morpheme
  3. Somewhat, rather. morpheme
    — Her face had a bluish tinge.
  4. About, approximately. especially,morpheme
    — We arrived at tennish. We arrived tennish.
    We arrived sometime around ten.
  5. Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something). morpheme
    — British, Cornish, Danish, English, Finnish, Irish, Jewish, Kentish, Polish, Scottish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish etc.

词源

词源 1
From Middle English -ish, -isch, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-isk, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos.
Cognate with Dutch -s; German -isch (whence Dutch -isch); Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish -isk or -sk; Lithuanian -iškas; Russian -ский (-skij); and the Ancient Greek diminutive suffix -ίσκος (-ískos). Doublet of -esque and -ski.
词源 2
From Middle English -ishen, -ischen, -issen, from Old French -iss-, -is- (a termination of the stem of some forms [present participle, etc.] of certain verbs), from Latin -ēscere, -īscere (an inchoative suffix), the formative -esc-, -isc- (-sc-, Greek -σκ- (-sk-)) being ultimately cognate with English -ish (Etymology 1). See -esce, -escent, etc.
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