From ont- (“un-, de-”) + heem (“home”). Coined in 1944 as a translation of English displaced person. While it resembles a participle morphologically, it does not derive from the verb onthemen, which has in fact seen some (rare) usage but is itself a back-formation from this adjective.
ontheemd (not comparable)
| Declension of ontheemd | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | ontheemd | |||
| inflected | ontheemde | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | ontheemd | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | ontheemde | ||
| n. sing. | ontheemd | |||
| plural | ontheemde | |||
| definite | ontheemde | |||
| partitive | ontheemds | |||