-ish

[Anglo-Saxon -isc; akin to German -isch, Old High German -isc, Gothic & Danish -isk, Greek {not transcribed}. Compare -esque.]

A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white.

-ish

[Old English -issen, from French -is, -iss- (found in the present particle, etc., of certain verbs, as finir to finish, fleurir to flourish), corresponding to Latin -escere, an inchoative ending.]

A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.