Feminin

-heit

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (feminine, morpheme) Converts an adjective into a noun and usually denotes an abstract quality of the adjectival root. It is often equivalent to the English suffixes -ness, -th, -ty, -dom
  2. (feminine, morpheme) Converts concrete nouns into abstract nouns

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/-haɪ̯t/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

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.

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