-hood

See also: hood, Hood, and 'hood

English

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, Elfdalian -iet, Norwegian Bokmål -het, Norwegian Nynorsk -heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Elfdalian, Norwegian and Danish endings were borrowed from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hʊd/
Rhymes: -ʊd

Suffix

-hood

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

neighbor - neighborhood

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Related terms

other terms ending in -hood

Translations

condition or state

Armenian: -ություն (-utʿyun)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 時期 (zh), 时期 (zh) (shíqī) (time period), 狀態 (zh), 状态 (zh) (zhuàngtài) (state)
Czech: -ství (cs) n
Danish: -hed (da)
Dutch: -heid (nl) f
Esperanto: -eco
Finnish: -uus (fi)
Galician: -dade f
German: -heit (de), -keit (de), -schaft (de)
Khmer: ភាព (km) (pʰiep)

Kurdish: -tî‎ (ku) (-tî)
Macedonian: -ство (-stvo)
Polish: -stwo (pl) n, -ctwo n, -ość (pl) f
Portuguese: -idade (pt) f, -idão f
Romanian: -itate f, -tate f, -ătate f, -eață f, -ețe f
Russian: -ство (-stvo)
Swahili: u-
Swedish: -dom (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

group

Armenian: -ություն (-utʿyun)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 全體 (zh), 全体 (zh) (quántǐ) (no exact equivalent exists)
Finnish: -us (fi), -sto (fi)
German: -schaft (de)

Macedonian: -ство (-stvo)
Polish: -stwo (pl) n
Portuguese: -idade (pt) f
Swedish: -skap (sv)

Anagrams

Hodo, hodo-

Middle English

Suffix

-hood

Alternative form of -hede

References

“-hed(e (suf.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 June 2018.

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