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-ish
adjectival suffix, from Old English
-isc
, common Germanic (cognates: Old Norse
-iskr
, German
-isch
, Gothic
-isks
), cognate with Greek diminutive suffix
-iskos
. Colloquially attached to hours to denote approximation, 1916.