Usage notes

• Occasionally used in deliberately archaising language; e.g. a product marketed to appeal to a sense of nostalgia may use a spelling such as Hollandsch instead of Hollands.
• In some cases this archaising usage extends even to words ending in -s today which historically did not end in -sch at all. For example, some university sororities may include the word damesch (from dames, plural of dame (“lady”)): a completely made-up archaism, as the plural marker -s historically was never spelled -sch.

Usage notes

• Words in -sch inflect like normal adjectives.
• While the name generally remains capitalised with the spelling -'sch, it may alternatively be lowercased without the apostrophe (provided that the adjective is neither nominalised nor part of a fixed term).

Derived terms

Alternative forms

• -sc

Descendants

• Dutch: -s (older -sch)