Etymology Explorer › Middle Dutch

Where does “-tech” come from?

-tech (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch -tig, from Proto-Germanic tigiwiz, from Proto-Germanic *teguz.

Ancestry of “-tech”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutch-tig—
2Proto-Germanictigiwiznominative/vocative plural of *teguz
3Proto-Germanic*teguz—

Words derived from “-tech”

  • tig
  • -tig
Every word from Proto-Germanic *teguz →