-schaft

== German == === Etymology === Middle High German -schaft, from Old High German -skaft, -skaf, from Proto-West Germanic *-skapi. Cognate with Dutch -schap, Swedish -skap, English -ship, Danish -skab, West Frisian -skip. Final -t possibly from Proto-Germanic *-þiz, as seen in *gaskaftiz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃaft/, [ʃäft] === Suffix === -schaft f (genitive -schaft, plural -schaften) -ship, -hood ‎Eltern (“parents”) + ‎-schaft → ‎Elternschaft (“parenthood”) ‎Graf (“count”) + ‎-schaft → ‎Grafschaft (“county”) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “-schaft”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “-schaft” in Duden online