-keit

Signification (Anglais)

alternative form of -heit

Concepts

-ité

te

abilité

-esse

-ite

-é

-té

Synonymes

-heit

-nis

-schaft

-tät

-

-ität

Traductions

-heid

-ness

-schap

-idade

-idad

-ity

-idão

-hood

-te

-ie

-nis

-teit

-à

-ezza

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kaɪ̯t/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à saterlandais: -igaid

In summary

Result of an etymologically wrong segmentation (rebracketing) of two suffixes in Upper German dialects of Middle High German: -ec (modern -ig) and -heit: -ec-heit was interpreted as -e-keit. Later this phenomenon spread to other suffixes, and even to Central German dialects, in which the equivalents of -ig had never been pronounced with a final [k]-sound. (Compare the modern German Standard German pronunciation of -ig [-ɪç].) However, in some northern dialects of Central German, like Ripuarian, -keit is still absent or has only recently been introduced from standard German. Compare Saterland Frisian -igaid.