-hood

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English -hode, 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 A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being. ‎child + ‎-hood → ‎childhood A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state. ‎brother + ‎-hood → ‎brotherhood ‎neighbour + ‎-hood → ‎neighbourhood ==== Synonyms ==== -head (obsolete) -ness -ship -itude -th -ia -ity -icity -mony -osity -dom ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === quiddity === Anagrams === Hodo, hodo- == Middle English == === Suffix === -hood alternative form of -hede