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pessimizer
2557 days ago
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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ncmncm
2556 days ago
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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