Where does “-yssh” come from?

-yssh (Middle English) comes from Old English -isċ, from Proto-West Germanic -isk, from Proto-Germanic -iskaz, from Proto-Indo-European -iskos — Characteristic of, typical of, pertaining to.

-yssh (Middle English): Affixed to nouns designating races, peoples and...

Definitions

  1. Affixed to nouns designating races, peoples and...

Ancestry of “-yssh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old English-isċ-ish
2Proto-West Germanic-iskCreates adjectives from nouns
3Proto-Germanic-iskazForms adjectives from nouns with the sense of...
4Proto-Indo-European-iskosCharacteristic of, typical of, pertaining to

Words derived from “-yssh”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -iskos →Every word from Proto-Germanic -iskaz →Every word from Old English -isċ →