-haft
See also: haft and Haft
Alemannic German
Etymology
Compare German -haft.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɑft/
Suffix
-haft
- 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 Old High German 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
- 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
-haft
- 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
- 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