-haft

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See also: haft and Haft

Alemannic German

Etymology

Compare German -haft.

Pronunciation

Suffix

-haft

  1. Used to form adjectives from nouns.
    ‎Masse (“mass”) + ‎-haft → ‎massehaft (“en masse”)
    ‎Ärnscht (“earnestness”) + ‎-haft → ‎ärnschthaft (“serious”)

Derived terms

Alemannic German terms suffixed with -haft

German

Etymology

From Middle High German -haft, from Old High German haft, from Proto-West Germanic *haft, from Proto-Germanic *haftaz (“captured, afflicted”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós, from the root *keh₂p- (“to seize”).

Cognates include Old English hæft (“captive”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃 (hafts), Latin captus (“captured”), Old Irish cacht (“captive, chain”), Welsh caeth (“slave, captivity, chain”), Latin captīvus (“captive”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /-haft/,
  • The suffix has secondary stress when it follows an unstressed syllable and often also when it precedes one. When it is entirely unstressed, the /h/ may be unpronounced in common speech.
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Suffix

-haft

  1. Used to form adjectives from nouns.
    ‎Masse (“mass”) + ‎-haft → ‎massenhaft (“en masse”)
    ‎Ernst (“earnestness”) + ‎-haft → ‎ernsthaft (“serious”)

Derived terms

German terms suffixed with -haft

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Haft”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
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