-haft
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Alemannic German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-haft
- Used to form adjectives from nouns.
- Masse (“mass”) + -haft → massehaft (“en masse”)
- Ärnscht (“earnestness”) + -haft → ärnschthaft (“serious”)
Derived terms
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).[1]
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
[edit]- IPA(key): /-haft/, [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
[edit]-haft
- Used to form adjectives from nouns.
- Masse (“mass”) + -haft → massenhaft (“en masse”)
- Ernst (“earnestness”) + -haft → ernsthaft (“serious”)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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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