English Explanatory Dictionary

-hood

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.
  2. A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state.

Pronunciation

/hʊd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--hood.wav

Word forms

-hood -hoods

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hede English -hood From Middle English -hode, from Old English -hād, from Proto-West Germanic *-haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (compare -head). Cognate with German -heit, -keit, Dutch -heid, Afrikaans -heid, Swedish -het, Elfdalian -iet, Norwegian Bokmål -het, Norwegian Nynorsk -heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Elfdalian, Norwegian and Danish endings were borrowed from Middle Low German.

Synonyms

-head -ness -ship -itude -th -ia -ity -icity -mony -osity -dom

Related words

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 quiddity

Translations

Armenian: -ություն Chinese Mandarin: 時期 /时期 Chinese Mandarin: 狀態 /状态 Czech: -ství Danish: -hed Dutch: -heid Esperanto: -eco Finnish: -uus French: -ité Galician: -dade German: -heit German: -keit German: -schaft Hungarian: -kor Hungarian: -ság Hungarian: -ség Khmer: ភាព Northern Kurdish: -tî Limburgish: -heid Macedonian: -ство Polish: -stwo Polish: -ctwo Polish: -ość Portuguese: -idade Portuguese: -idão Romanian: -itate Romanian: -tate Romanian: -ătate Romanian: -eață Romanian: -ețe Russian: -ство Slovak: -stvo Spanish: -dad Spanish: -edad Spanish: -idad Swahili: u- Swedish: -dom Vietnamese: thời Vietnamese: tuổi Zazaki: -in
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