appended to adjectives to form names of abstract concepts, especially feelings; -ness, -hood
eş: -ota
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-Hostis Proto-Balto-Slavic *-astis Proto-Slavic *-ostь Old Polish -ość Polish -ość Inherited from Old Polish -ość. Doublet of -oza.
köken: Latinism, learned borrowing from Latin -itās. * Displaced Dutch borrowings -itet and -iteit. Coined by Indonesian politician Mohammad Yamin between 1953 and 1955, to mediate difference of 2 schools how to Indonesianise Dutch -iteit; there were two different opinions put forward -itet and -itit.