-hood

See also: hood, Hood, and 'hood

English

Etymology

From Middle English -hod, 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʊd/
• Rhymes: -ʊd

Suffix

-hood

1. A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.

   child - childhood

2. A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing 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: 時期／时期 (zh) (shíqī) (time period), 狀態／状态 (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, -idão f Romanian: -itate (ro) f, -tate (ro) f, -ătate (ro) f, -eață f, -ețe f 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: 全體／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 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