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Re:Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019 by ncmncm on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @09:21AM (#20223045)
Similarly to "isch" from German, which we filed the serial numbers off of, and respelled "ish". For some reason we are squeamish about doing that to French.

Perhaps ironically, we took squeamish from French escoymous, but substituted "our" suffix.

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Re:Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019 by magissima on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:13AM (#20223527)
"From Middle English -ish, -isch, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-Germanic -iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European -iskos."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ish

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Re:Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019 by pessimizer on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @12:06PM (#20224545)
Yeah, it's a little misleading to say that English borrowed that ending from German, English is a Germanic language and always had it.
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Re:Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019 by ncmncm on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @06:27PM (#20227981)
Ok, and "-ish" and "-esque" clearly both trace back to the Proto-indo-european. So we're really just talking about spelling standards, which are a recent innovation.
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