Where does “-miş” come from?

-miş (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish ـمش, from Old Anatolian Turkish ـمش, from Proto-Turkic *-miĺ — Forms past tense, heard, unseen, unexperienced or otherwise unclear to the speaker.

-miş (Turkish): Suffix creating subject past participles or impersonal perfective participles from verbs

Definitions

  1. Suffix creating subject past participles or impersonal perfective participles from verbs

Ancestry of “-miş”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman TurkishـمشEvidential suffix, distinguishing reported from observed actions
2Old Anatolian Turkishـمش—
3Proto-Turkic*-miĺForms past tense, heard, unseen, unexperienced or otherwise unclear to the speaker

Words derived from “-miş”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *-miĺ →Every word from Old Anatolian Turkish ـمش →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ـمش →