köken: From Middle High German -heit, from Old High German -heit, from Proto-West Germanic *-haidu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“personality, character, manner, way”). Cognate with Dutch -heid, English -hood, Danish -hed.
suffix appended to nouns and adjectives to create a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, quality or state: -hood, -ness, -ship, -ity, -y
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tusder. Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo Russian -ство Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo.
-ness, -ity, -hood; forms nouns from adjectives, denoting the abstract quality of the adjective.
köken: From Middle Dutch -heit, from Old Dutch -heit, from Proto-West Germanic *-haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz. Cognate with German -heit, English -hood.
forms nouns, from adjectives, indicating the state, property or quality of conforming to the adjective’s description; -ity; -ness; -hood · forms nouns, from adjectives, indicating something that has the given quality; -ity
eş: -dade, -eidade
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itātem Old Galician-Portuguese -idade Portuguese -idade Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -idade, from Latin -itātem.
Used to form abstract nouns from adjectives; function is similar to -ty and -ness.
köken: From Old Danish -het, from Middle Low German -heit, from Old Saxon -hēd. Cognate with Norwegian -het, Swedish -het, German -heit, Dutch -heid and English -hood.
Suffix appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, craft, quality or a state; equivalent to English -hood, -ness or -craft.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tusder. Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo Old Church Slavonic -ьство (-ĭstvo) Bulgarian -ство Inherited from Old Church Slavonic -ьство (-ĭstvo), from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo.
suffix appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, quality or a state. Corresponding to English -hood or -ness
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tusder. Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo Slovak -stvo Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo.
[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#U class|u class_((XI))]] noun prefix, denoting natural objects, extensions, abstract qualities, or collections of small things.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Sabaki *lu- and *wu-. Due to sound change, Swahili merged the Bantu classes XI (from Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀-) and XIV (from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀-) into one u class_((XI)), with adjective agreement identical to that of m class_((III)). The same merger happened in the Comorian languages, such as with Ngazidja Comorian u-. Due to this merger, many original class-XI nouns were removed from…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -itia Italian -ezzabor. Esperanto -eco Borrowed from Italian -ezza, as in altezza (“height”) (Esperanto alteco). Compare French -esse.
suffix appended to nouns and adjectives to create a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, quality or state: -hood, -ness, -ship, -ity, -dom