-eis
Old French
suffix
Definitions
- used to form nationalities
- used to form names of languages
Etymology
Inherited from Latin -iscus, -ēnsis (of a place, of from a place, of from).
Origin
Latin
-ēnsis
Gloss
of a place, of from a place, of from
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -ese English
- Piegan English
- Viet-Namese English
- -iscus Latin
- -ēnsis Latin
- -esco Italian
- -ees Dutch, Flemish
- -esque French
- -sco Spanish, Castilian
- -és Spanish, Castilian
- Guyana Spanish, Castilian
- -ῐ́σκος Ancient Greek
- *-iskaz Proto-Germanic
- -ois Old French
- -esc Catalan, Valencian
- -ès Catalan, Valencian
- -esc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- -escu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- -es Old Portuguese
- -escu Aromanian
- -enc Occitan
- -éize Ligurian
- -isc lng
- -iscus LL