-hood
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English -hod, from Old English -hād, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (compare -head).
Cognate with German -heit, -keit, Dutch -heid, Afrikaans -heid, Swedish -het, ovd -iet, Norwegian Bokmål -het, Norwegian Nynorsk -heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Elfdalian, Norwegian and Danish endings were borrowed from Middle Low German.
Pronunciation- IPA: /hʊd/
- A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.
- child - childhood
- A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state.
- brother - brotherhood
- neighbour - neighbourhood
- falsehood
- likelihood
- livelihood
- unlikelihood
- hardihood
- lustihood
- brotherhood
- childhood
- fatherhood
- maidenhood
- maidhood
- manhood
- motherhood
- widowerhood
- widowhood
- womanhood
- sisterhood
- nationhood
- neighborhood
- statehood
- peoplehood
- selfhood
- singlehood
- villainhood
- statehooder
- godhood
- prophethood
- kinghood
- priesthood
- knighthood
- monkhood
- personhood
- sainthood
- servanthood
- serfhood
- victimhood
- French: -ité
- German: -heit, -keit, -schaft
- Portuguese: -idade, -idão
- Russian: -ство
- Spanish: -dad, -edad, -idad
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