Adjective: spiritish
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more spiritish |
| Superlative | most spiritish |
Sample Sentences
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She flitted around the omnibus in a spiritish dance of joy. “Gone where?” Grey asked, before sharing the news with the living persons on the bus. Don't know, don't care. [2009, Gail Dayton, Heart's Blood:]
Adjectives inflected like spiritish
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
3. Latin spīrō
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
5. Proto-Italic *-tus
6. Latin -tus
7. Latin spīritus
8. Old French espiritbor.
9. Middle English spirit
10. English spirit
11. Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
12. Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
13. Proto-West Germanic *-isk
14. Old English -isċ
15. Middle English -ish
16. English -ish
17. English spiritish
18. From spirit + -ish.