-hood

From Middle English -hod, from Old English -hād, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (compare -head). Cognate with German -heit, -keit, Dutch -heid, Afrikaans -heid, Swedish -het, Elfdalian -iet, Norwegian Bokmål -het, Norwegian Nynorsk -heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Elfdalian, Norwegian and Danish endings were borrowed from Middle Low German.

• IPA^(key): /hʊd/
• Rhymes: -ʊd

-hood

1. A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.

   child - childhood

2. A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state.

   brother - brotherhood

   neighbour - neighbourhood

• -head (obsolete)
• -ness
• -ship
• -itude
• -th
• -ia
• -ity
• -icity
• -mony
• -osity
• -dom

• quiddity

• Hodo, hodo-

-hood

1. Alternative form of -hede