-ich

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Placename suffix found in the Rhineland.

Synonyme

-ig

-isch

-lich

Übersetzungen

-al

-eux

-ique

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɪç/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Principally from Latin -iacum, itself from Celtic (compare *-ākos). 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.