-hood

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-hood

/hʊd/

Rhymes with -ʊd

Where it comes from

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.

suffix -hoods

countable, morpheme, uncountable A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being. child + -hood → childhood
countable, morpheme, uncountable A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state. brother + -hood → brotherhood

Similar: -head, -ness, -ship, -itude, -th, -ia, -ity, -icity, -mony, -osity, -dom

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suffix

Similar: -head, -ness, -ship, -itude, -th, -ia, -ity, -icity, -mony, -osity, -dom

Translations

Every language

suffix condition or state

Español	-dad, -edad, -idad
中文	時期 /时期 shíqī, 狀態 /状态 zhuàngtài
Kiswahili	u-
Português	-idade, -idão
Français	-ité
Deutsch	-heit, -keit, -schaft
Română	-itate, -tate, -ătate, -eață, -ețe
Русский	-ство -stvo
Tiếng Việt	thời, tuổi

suffix group

Español	-dad, -edad, -idad
中文	全體 /全体 quántǐ
Português	-idade
Deutsch	-schaft

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Chicago

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@misc{hood_2026,
  title = {-hood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/-hood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}