-haft

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See also: haft and 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/, [haftʰ]
  • Audio:(file)

Suffix

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  1. an adjectival suffix

Derived terms

German terms suffixed with -haft

References

  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
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