-ish
suffix (FROM PLACE) /-ɪʃ/Definition
› used to form adjectives and nouns that say what country or area a person, thing, or language comes from: Spanish dancing Are you English? I've always liked the Irish (= people from Ireland). Do you speak Swedish?Nationalities
(Definition of -ish suffix (FROM PLACE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- -an suffix
- African noun
- anglicize verb
- Anglo-Saxon adjective
- as American as apple pie idiom
- clanswoman noun
- First Fleeter noun
- Germanic adjective
- Hellenic adjective
- Hungarian adjective
- Hungarian noun
- Italian adjective
- Italian noun
- Pole noun
- Romanian adjective
- Romanian noun
- Russian adjective
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