Where does “-heit” come from?
-heit (Middle High German) comes from Old High German -heit, from Proto-West Germanic -haidu, from Proto-Germanic haiduz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kayt-.
-heit (Middle High German): ness, -ity, -hood; forms nouns from adjectives, denoting the abstract quality of the adjective
Definitions
- ness, -ity, -hood; forms nouns from adjectives, denoting the abstract quality of the adjective
Ancestry of “-heit”, step by step
Words derived from “-heit”
- ־הייט
- -heet
- -heit
- -heet
- -heet
- krancheit
- ־קייט
- Krankheit
- Krankheed
- Taucherkrankheit
- Zuckerkrankheit
- Weißmuskelkrankheit
- Berufskrankheit
- Augenkrankheit
- Herzkrankheit
- Höhenkrankheit
- Lungenkrankheit
- Kinderkrankheit
- Caissonkrankheit
- Krankheitserreger
- Alkoholkrankheit
- Dekompressionskrankheit
- Selenmangelkrankheit
- krankheitsbedingt