-hood
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- Condition; state; quality:
后缀,表示状况;状态;性质:
manhood.
成人,人的状态 - An instance of a specified state or quality:
后缀,表示特定状态或性质的例子:
falsehood.
错误,虚妄 - A group sharing a specified state or quality:
后缀,表示拥有同一特定状态或性质的集体:
sisterhood.
姐妹关系
语源
- Middle English -hed, -hode
中古英语 -hed, -hode - from Old English *-hǣde, -hād
源自 古英语 *-hǣde, -hād
-hood
suffix forming nouns
indicating state or condition of being
⇒
manhood
⇒
adulthood
indicating a body of persons
⇒
knighthood
⇒
priesthood
Origin
Old English -hād-hood
Word Origin
1
a native English suffix denoting state, condition, character, nature, etc., or a body of persons of a particular character or class, formerly used in the formation of nouns: childhood; likelihood; knighthood; priesthood.
Origin
Middle English -hode, -hod, Old English -hād (cognate with German -heit), special use of hād condition, state, order, quality, rank
Related Words
- -head
- angelhood
- apartheid
- bachelorhood
- boyhood
- brotherhood
-hooda suffix denoting state, condition, character, nature, etc., or a body of persons of a particular character or class, as in childhood, likelihood, priesthood, sisterhood.
[Middle English -hode, -hod, Old English -hād, related to German -heit; originally separate word, Old English hād condition, state, etc.]-hood
noun suffix
widowerhood
hardihood
2. time : period
childhood
3. instance of a (specified) state or quality
falsehood
4. individuals sharing a (specified) state or character
brotherhood
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY Middle English -hod, from Old English -hād; akin to Old High German -heit state, Gothic haidus way, manner
1. state : condition : quality : characterwidowerhood
hardihood
2. time : period
childhood
3. instance of a (specified) state or quality
falsehood
4. individuals sharing a (specified) state or character
brotherhood
-hood
suffix
forming nouns [构成名词]
1.
- denoting a condition or quality表示“状态”, “特性”:
-
falsehood
womanhood.
2.
- denoting a collection or group表示“集合”, “集体”:
-
brotherhood.
词源
Old English-hād, originally an independent noun meaning'person, condition, quality'.
1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 46Their heauenly hoods in theyr synode thus decreede.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes i. iv. (1640) 45It is not man-hood, it is dog-hood, or I may terme it beare-hood.
1662 Sparrow tr. Behme's Rem.Wks. ,Apol. conc. Perf. 117Man in his self-hood and I-hood.
1876 W. Bathgate Deep Things of God ii. 19Acquainted with the great reality of their Soulhood.
1883 Daily News 3 Oct. 2/2 Believing in the white Aylesburys..as the final expression of duckhood.
-hood
word-forming element meaning "state or condition of being," from Old English -had "condition, position," cognate with German -heit, Dutch -heid, all from Proto-Germanic *haidus "manner, quality," literally "bright appearance," from PIE (s)kai- (1) "bright, shining." Originally a free-standing word (see hade); in Modern English it survives only in this suffix.
ORIGIN: Old English -hād = Old Saxon -hēd , Old & Modern High German -heit , orig. a Germanic noun meaning ‘person, sex, condition, rank, quality’, repr. by Old English hād , Old Saxon hēd , Old High German heit , Old Norse heiðr honour, worth, Gothic haidus kind, manner.
-hood ⇒ Main Entry: -head
☞ hood
-hood
\ˌhu̇d, after vȯiceless consonants sometimes ˌu̇d as in ˈprēˌstu̇d one pronunciation of “priesthood”\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English -hod, -hode, from Old English -hād; akin to Old Frisian & Old Saxon -hēd, suffix denoting state or condition, Old High German -heit; all from a prehistoric Germanic word represented by Old English hād person, rank, state, condition, Old High German heit person, rank, state, condition, Old Norse heithr honor, Gothic haidus manner, way; akin to Old English hādor bright, clear, Old High German heitar, Old Norse heithr, and probably to Latin caesius bluish gray, caelum sky, heaven, Sanskrit citra variegated, bright, ketu brightness, light; basic meaning: bright
1. : state : condition : quality : character
< boyhood >
< girlhood >
< hardihood >
< unlikelihood >
2. : an instance of a specified state, condition, quality, or character
< falsehood >
3. : individuals sharing a specified state, condition, quality, or character
< brotherhood >
1.
< boyhood >
< girlhood >
< hardihood >
< unlikelihood >
2.
< falsehood >
3.
< brotherhood >
-hood
Suffix
- A condition or state of being the thing or being in the role denoted by the word it is suffixed to, usually a noun.
- child - childhood
- A group sharing a specified condition or state.
- brother - brotherhood
- neighbor - neighborhood
Etymology
From Old English -hād, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz, via Middle English -hode (compare -head). Cognate with German -heit, Dutch -heid, Swedish -het, Norwegian -het/-heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Norwegian and Danish endings are borrowed from West Germanic
Synonyms
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -hood
Related terms
See also
后缀:-hood [名词后缀]
构成抽象名词,表示时期,情况,状态,性质,身份,资格等
childhood 童年
boyhood 少年时代
girlhood 少女时期
widowhood 守寡,孀居
neighborhood 邻居关系
manhood 成年
falsehood 谬误,不真实
bachelorhood 独身生活
likelihood 可能(性)
brotherhood 兄弟之道
motherhood 母性,母亲身份
fatherhood 父性,父亲身份
doghood 狗性
sisterhood 姐妹关系