[-ish] Ireland, Scotland = Irish, Scottish

[-an] Morocco, Germany = Moroccan, German

[-ese] Portugal, China = Portuguese, Chinese

What rule is at play here? 🤔

Cheers!

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    26 days ago

    The English Language, where the grammar is made up and the rules don’t matter.

    I can add:

    [-er] New Zealander

        • master5o1@lemmy.nz
          1·
          22 days ago

          When does a colloquial term become a non-colloquial? Usage by government/official contexts?

          In August 2022, Minister of Immigration Michael Wood referred to 85,000 holders of recently approved New Zealand 2021 resident visas as “new Kiwis”.