-esk

Borrowed from French -esque.

• IPA^(key): /ɛsk/

• Audio:

  (file)

-esk

1. -esque: in the style of manner of

Borrowed from French -esque. Doublet of -isch and -sch.

• IPA^(key): /-ˈɛsk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

-esk

1. (higher register) -esque; used to form adjectives denoting a similarity in style or manner; productive use is chiefly (even more than in English) restricted to derivations from proper nouns

   Synonym: (with common nouns) -artig

   ‎Kafka + ‎-esk → ‎kafkaesk

• -sch