submissiveness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English submissive

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English submissiveness

From submissive + -ness.

Noun

submissiveness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being submissive.

Translations

the property of being submissive

• German: Unterwürfigkeit (de) f
• Greek: υποτακτικότητα (el) f (ypotaktikótita)
• Manx: beasaght f
• Slovak: submisívnosť