Etymology

apish

A1P3I1S1H4

Today it means: Resembling or characteristic of an ape. Full definition →

English ape ← Middle English ape ← Old English apa
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*apô
  3. Proto-West Germanic*apō
  4. Old Englishapa
  5. Middle Englishape
  6. Englishape
  7. English todayapish

From ape + -ish.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.