-hood

See also:hood,Hood,and'hood

English

Etymology

FromMiddle English-hod,fromOld English-hād,fromProto-West Germanic*-haidu,fromProto-Germanic*haiduz(compare-head). Cognate withGerman-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 fromMiddle Low German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/hʊd/
• Rhymes:-ʊd

Suffix

-hood

1. A substantive suffix denoting aconditionorstateof being.

   child - childhood

2. A substantive suffix denoting agroupsharing a specified condition or state.

   brother - brotherhood

   neighbour - neighbourhood

Synonyms

• -head(obsolete)
• -ness
• -ship
• -itude
• -th
• -ia
• -ity
• -icity
• -mony
• -osity
• -dom

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -hood

Related terms

other terms ending in -hood

• 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

Translations

condition or state

• Armenian:-ություն(-utʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Thời kỳ／Thời kỳ(zh)(shíqī)(time period),Trạng thái／Trạng thái(zh)(zhuàngtài)(state)

• Czech:-ství(cs)n
• Danish:-hed(da)
• Dutch:-heid(nl)f
• Esperanto:-eco(eo)
• Finnish:-uus(fi)
• French:-ité(fr)f
• Galician:-dade(gl)f
• German:-heit(de),-keit(de),-schaft(de)
• Hungarian:-kor(hu),-ság/-ség(hu)
• Khmer:ភាព(km)(pʰiep)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish:-tî(ku)

• Macedonian:-ство(-stvo)
• Polish:-stwo(pl)n,-ctwo(pl)n,-ość(pl)f
• Portuguese:-idade(pt)f,-idãof
• Romanian:-itate(ro)f,-tate(ro)f,-ătate(ro)f,-eațăf,-ețef
• Russian:-ство(-stvo)
• Spanish:-dad(es)f,-edad(es)f,-idad(es)f
• Swahili:u-
• Swedish:-dom(sv)
• Thai:please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese:thời(time period),tuổi(vi)(time period)
• Zazaki:-in

group

• Armenian:-ություն(-utʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Toàn thể／Toàn thể(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
• Spanish:-dad(es)f,-edad(es)f,-idad(es)f
• Swedish:-skap(sv)

See also

• quiddity

Anagrams

• Hodo,hodo-

Middle English

Suffix

-hood

1. Alternative form of-hede