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-haft

GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /haft/, [haftʰ]
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SuffixEdit

-haft

  1. an adjectival suffix

Derived termsEdit

► German words suffixed with -haft


ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “Haft”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, →ISBN
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