Where does “-iște” come from?

-iște (Romanian) comes from Old Church Slavonic -ище, from Proto-Slavic -išče, from Proto-Slavic isk-je.

-iște (Romanian): noun suffix used to denote a place

Definitions

  1. noun suffix used to denote a place

Ancestry of “-iște”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Church Slavonic-ище—
2Proto-Slavic-iščeDenominal, denoting places or spaces; Denominal,...
3Proto-Slavicisk-je—

Words derived from “-iște”

Every word from Proto-Slavic isk-je →Every word from Proto-Slavic -išče →Every word from Old Church Slavonic -ище →