-haft

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See also: haft and Haft

Alemannic German

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Etymology

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Compare German -haft.

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-haft

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

Derived terms

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German

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Etymology

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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

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  • 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

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-haft

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

Derived terms

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References

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  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