Where does “-ich” come from?

-ich (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch -ig, from Proto-West Germanic -g, from Proto-Germanic -gaz, from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos — -y, -ic.

-ich (Middle Dutch): -y

Definitions

  1. -y

Ancestry of “-ich”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutch-ig—
2Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
3Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
4Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic

Words derived from “-ich”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos →