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Where does “-heit” come from?

-heit (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch -heit, from Proto-West Germanic -haidu, from Proto-Germanic haiduz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kayt-.

Ancestry of “-heit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutch-heit—
2Proto-West Germanic-haidu—
3Proto-Germanichaiduzmanner, way; personality, character; appearance
4Proto-Indo-European(s)kayt-—

Words derived from “-heit”

  • apartheid
  • antiapartheid
  • postapartheid
  • preapartheid
  • apartheidlike
  • apartheidist
  • apartheidness
  • apartheidistic
  • anti-apartheidism
  • apartheidesque
  • apartheidish
  • apartheidism
  • apartheidize
  • apartheidization
  • apartheider
  • apartheidic
  • apartheidisation
  • antiapartheid
  • apartheid
  • apartheid
  • апартеид
  • apartheid
  • Mehrheit
  • Apartheid
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