ontheemd

Dutch

Etymology

From ont- (“un-, de-”) +‎ heem (“home”). Coined in 1944 as a translation of English displaced person. While it resembles a participle morphologically, it does not derive from the verb onthemen, which has in fact seen some (rare) usage but is itself a back-formation from this adjective.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːmt

Adjective

ontheemd (not comparable)

1. (said of people) displaced, deprived of a home

Inflection

Declension of ontheemd
uninflected	ontheemd
inflected	ontheemde
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		ontheemd
indefinite	m./f. sing.	ontheemde
	n. sing.	ontheemd
	plural	ontheemde
definite		ontheemde
partitive		ontheemds

Derived terms

• onthemen