-ich

• -ig (e.g. Sinzig from Sentiacum)

Principally from Latin -iacum, itself from Celtic. However, other names were sometimes adapted to the suffix, as in Limperich (now a district of Bonn), which goes back to Middle High German Lintberg.

• IPA^(key): /ɪç/

-ich

1. Placename suffix found in the Rhineland.

• -ech

From Old Dutch -ig, from Proto-West Germanic *-g, from Proto-Germanic *-īgaz, *-agaz, *-ugaz.

-ich

1. -y; forms adjectives from nouns.

• Dutch: -ig

-ich

1. Alternative form of -yssh

-ich

1. Alternative form of -y (“-y”)

From Middle High German -ec, -ic, from Old High German -ig, from Proto-Germanic *-gaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos. Compare German -ig, Dutch -ig, English -y, Swedish -ig.

-ich

1. (adjectival) -y

From Old Frisian -ich, from Proto-Germanic *-īgaz, variant of *-gaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos. Compare German and Dutch -ig, English -y.

-ich

1. -y

• -aich (broad version)

From Old Irish -igidir (whence also Irish -igh), originally a denominative verb formative, from Proto-Celtic *-sagyetor; compare Welsh -hau.

-ich

1. Suffix used to form verbs; semi-productive in Scottish Gaelic.

Participles

From Old Frisian -ich, from Proto-Germanic *-īgaz, variant of *-gaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos.

-ich

1. -y

• “-ich”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011