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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Principally from Latin -iacum, itself from Celtic. However, other names were sometimes adapted to the suffix, as in Limperich (now a district of Bonn), which goes back to Middle High German Lintberg.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ich
- Placename suffix found in the Rhineland.
Related terms
Middle Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Dutch -ig, from Proto-West Germanic *-g, from Proto-Germanic *-īgaz, *-agaz, *-ugaz.
Suffix
-ich
- -y; forms adjectives from nouns.
Derived terms
Descendants
Middle English
Etymology 1
Suffix
-ich
- Alternative form of -yssh
Etymology 2
Suffix
-ich
- Alternative form of -y (“-y”)
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German -ec, -ic, from Old High German -ig, from Proto-Germanic *-gaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos. Compare German -ig, Dutch -ig, English -y, Swedish -ig.
Suffix
-ich
- (adjectival) -y
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian -ich, from Proto-Germanic *-īgaz, variant of *-gaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos. Compare German and Dutch -ig, English -y.
Suffix
-ich
- -y
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish -igidir (whence also Irish -igh), originally a denominative verb formative, from Proto-Celtic *-sagyetor; compare Welsh -hau.
Suffix
-ich
- Suffix used to form verbs; semi-productive in Scottish Gaelic.
Conjugation
- Participles
Tense \ Voice
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Active
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Passive
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Present
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a' -igh
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--
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Past
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-ich
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-icheadh
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Future
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-ichidh
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-ichear
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Conditional
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-icheadh
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-ichteadh
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Derived terms
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian -ich, from Proto-Germanic *-īgaz, variant of *-gaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos.
Suffix
-ich
- -y
Further reading
- “-ich”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011